Patent ID: 8255494

Claim:
A method of executing a web application installed on an apparatus, the method comprising: executing, via a processor included by the apparatus, a web browser; loading, via the web browser, the web application, wherein the web application includes a manifest and at least a portion of a web site, wherein the web application was packaged as an installable entity and the web site is self-contained; managing, by the web browser, the execution of the web application; and accessing, via the web browser, from a local storage medium one or more portions of the web site included by the web application and wherein the one or more portions of the web site were stored in the local storage medium when the web application was installed, wherein accessing from the local storage medium the one or more portions of the web site includes never accessing any portion of the web site from a remote server, and only accessing the one or more portions of the web site from the local storage medium.