System and method of providing multiple installation actions

• US 7,395,513 B2
• Filed: 03/03/2004
• Issued: 07/01/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/05/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Marino, Phillip J., Johnson, Crista, Zimniewicz, Jeff A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Wiley; David
• Assistant Examiner(s): PESIN, BORIS M
• Application Number:
  US10/792,341
• Publication Number:
  US 20040169687A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,581 Days
• Field of Search: 715/866, 715/762, 715/763, 715/825, 715/826, 715/966, 715/765, 715/769, 715/771, 715/837, 719/313, 719/315, 719/316, 719/328, 719/331, 719/332, 717/116, 717/120, 717/121, 717/162, 717/165, 717/168, 717/174
• US Class Current: 715/841
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 715/966 Computer process, e.g. operation of computer

Abstract

A system and method are presented for a suite integration toolkit (SIT) allowing for the provision and display of a rich set of installation actions. The user interface (UI) provides a list box interface having pull down menus for the display and selection of component defined installation actions. Preferably the SIT is used to install a suite of applications having multiple components and sub-components. These components and sub-components are displayed with the install action selected and the disk space required displayed. The UI also provides a summation of the required disk space of only those components that will actually be installed, taking into consideration and excluding from the summation required components that are already installed. An interface method is implemented by each of the components to expose a method to allow the SIT to query the component for its available installation actions and results.

Claims

1. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon a suite of computer-executable components comprising;

at least one component implementing a component setup interface, said component setup interface exposing a first method to allow another component to query for a specific setup install action interface for each install action available for the component, wherein said setup install action interface comprises a GetResult method that returns a resultant state of the component after performance of the install action.

2. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein said setup install action interface comprises a GetInteger method allowing an association of a unique integer with each install action.

3. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein said setup install action interface comprises a Getstring method for returning a string that is displayed for each install action.

4. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein said setup install action interface comprises a Getproblem method for returning information that the component has a problem, and wherein said information is linked to a string that is displayed to a user.

5. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein a first resultant state is Install, and wherein said Install resultant state indicates that the component is installed.

6. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein a first resultant state is Remove, and wherein said Remove resultant state indicates that the component is no longer installed.

7. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein a first resultant state is Nothing, and wherein said Nothing resultant state indicates that no action was taken on, the component.

8. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein a first resultant state is Maintenance, and wherein said Maintenance resultant state indicates that no action was taken on the component but that actions are taken on a sub-component of the component.