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Method for deployment of incremental versions of applications

  • US 6,389,592 B1
  • Filed: 09/02/1999
  • Issued: 05/14/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/12/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a client computer, a method for updating a first version of installed application files to a second version, said method comprising the steps of:

  • responsive to receiving a delta file defining the changes between a file in said first version and a corresponding file in said second version, transforming said first version of said file into a first transformed image comprising a series of records;

    applying the changes contained in said delta file to selected records of said first transformed image to generate a transformed image of said second version; and

    reversing the transformation on the transformed image of said second version to generate said second version of said file on said client computer.

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