APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SOFTWARE CONFIGURATIONS ON A PLURALITY OF PLATFORMS
First Claim
1. A system for substantially duplicating a software configuration from a first computing system to at least a second computing system comprising:
- a software installation map configured to receive a source software manifest from the first computing system reflecting a source software configuration describing a plurality of source software files residing on a source client;
the software installation map further configured to generate a first software installation route describing a plurality of software files and associated dependencies, the first software installation route being a function of the source software manifest; and
the software installation map further configured to provide the first software installation route to a target client, the first route providing an identification of software files to substantially duplicate the source software configuration of the source client on the target client.
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Abstract
A virtual installation map, and method involving installing a software functionality using the same, the virtual installation map including a first software installation map including a plurality of software elements representative of a related software file, the software elements also including at least one dependency to another software element. The virtual installation map further including a second software installation map also including a second plurality of software elements representative of related software file along with related dependencies. The first and second software installation maps may be hosted in separate databases and may relate to software products provided by different vendors. One or both software installation maps may include a pointer or other reference to the other installation map thereby providing a virtual installation map, in one example.
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19 Claims
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1. A system for substantially duplicating a software configuration from a first computing system to at least a second computing system comprising:
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a software installation map configured to receive a source software manifest from the first computing system reflecting a source software configuration describing a plurality of source software files residing on a source client; the software installation map further configured to generate a first software installation route describing a plurality of software files and associated dependencies, the first software installation route being a function of the source software manifest; and the software installation map further configured to provide the first software installation route to a target client, the first route providing an identification of software files to substantially duplicate the source software configuration of the source client on the target client. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for substantially duplicating a software configuration from a first computing system to at least a second computing system comprising:
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receiving a request for duplicating a software configuration from a source client to a target client, the source client having a source software manifest listing the source software files residing on the source client and the target client having a target software load listing the target software files residing on the target client; receiving the source software manifest; generating a first software installation route based on the source software manifest, the first software installation route generated from a software installation map; and providing the first software installation route to the target client. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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