MANAGING APPLICATION STATES IN AN INTERACTIVE MEDIA ENVIRONMENT

摘要

Applications are managed in an interactive media environment by the creation of a logical model for the lifetime of an application. The model is applicable to concurrently and/or consecutively running applications and governs the creation of applications, manipulation of applications by other applications, resource consumption, visibility of an application to a user, and application shutdown in the interactive media environment using the construct of application "state" (700). A set of Booleans flags is utilized and unique combinations of elements in the Boolean flag set define a plurality of application states (700).