Image server store system and method using combined image views
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Abstract
An image server store having a combined image including a first image of a first software combined with other images of other software such that any one or more of the images can be restored from the combined image, and methods relating thereto. The method of making the combined image comprises creating a first image from a first software, creating a second image from the second software, and combining the first image and the second image into the combined image on the server store. Each image includes first descriptive data (metadata) corresponding to descriptive data of its software and includes file data corresponding to file data of its software.
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41 Claims
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30. A method of creating an image of a data structure of software on a destination device from a server store, said method comprising:
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providing a combined software image including a first software image and a second software image, said combined software image including one copy of file data common to both the first software image and the second software image, said combined software image including descriptive data of the first software image, said descriptive data identifying a location of file data of the first software image in the combined software image;
copying an image of the descriptive data of the first software image from the combined software image to a first destination device; and
copying an image of the file data of the first software image from the combined software image to the first destination device as a function of the descriptive data of the first software image. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 37, 39, 40, 41)
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36. A system comprising:
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a server store having a combined software image from which a first software image and a second software image different from the first software image can be re-created as a function of descriptive data indicating locations of file data of the first software image within the combined software image and locations of file data of the second software image within the combined software image, said combined software image storing one copy of file data common to both the first software image and the second software image;
a link; and
a destination device connected to the server store via the link, said destination device having the first software image thereon, which first software image on the destination device was copied from the combined software image via the link as a function of the locations of the file data of the first software image within the combined software image. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35)
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38. A system for manipulation by a computer of an integrated image of multiple software programs stored on a server store, said system comprising:
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an integrated software image having common files shared by a plurality of the software programs and unique files unique to a particular one of the software programs, said computer and said server store being connected to a data communication system, an offset table indicating the locations of file data of each of the software programs in the common files and the unique files in the integrated software image; and
a driver executing on the computer to provide access to the server store via the data communication system, said driver comprising one or more components for manipulating the common files and/or the unique files as a function of the offset table.
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