Method of and system for installing a computer program

• US 6,178,551 B1
• Filed: 07/01/1998
• Issued: 01/23/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Japan Airlines Company Limited (Government of Japan)
• Original Assignee: Japan Airlines Company Limited (Government of Japan)
• Inventors: Ichioka, Hiroyuki, Sana, Keisha
• Primary Examiner(s): Elmore, Reba I.
• Application Number:
  US09/108,840
• Time in Patent Office: 937 Days
• Field of Search: 395/712, 395/200.51, 395/200.32, 395/653, 717/11, 717/5
• US Class Current: 717/140
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation

Abstract

A method and a system which are capable of efficiently implementing an install of a program into a computer. The program installation is implemented when a great number of computers having different configurations are involved, when the computers are connected in a network, and when the stand-alone computers and the computers connected in the network are mixed together. The method of the present invention includes the steps of reading from a parameter file a content required for a predetermined process with reference to an environment of a computer into which the program is installed; calculating the content of the parameter file being read as an expression interpretive function representative of an expression form including a function; implementing the function included in the expression of the expression interpretive function when the expression interpretive function actually includes the function; implementing the predetermined process based on a result of the implementation; and installing the computer program so as to be adapted to the environment of the computer into which the computer program is installed by implementing the predetermined process.

Claims

1. A method of installing a computer program, comprising the steps of:

embedding in advance a parameter into a source program;

compiling said source program embedded with said parameter; and

properly installing a computer program with reference to an environment of a computer into which said computer program is installed by said source program which is compiled when said installing of said computer program is implemented.