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Mechanism to dynamically update a windows system with user specific application enablement support from a heterogeneous server environment

  • US 7,024,471 B2
  • Filed: 12/12/2000
  • Issued: 04/04/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for updating client computers with user specific application enablement, comprising:

  • creating, at a server, a component control file which defines enablement components needed to run applications from the server assigned to a user on a client and actions to be performed to install the enablement components, wherein the enablement components comprise required changes to an operating system of the client;

    creating, at a server, an installation control file which lists the applications that have been assigned to the user and the enablement components from the component control file which must be installed in order to execute the applications that have been assigned to the user on the client;

    determining, at the client, if the enablement components for applications listed in the installation control file are currently installed on the client; and

    if the enablement components for the applications listed in the installation control file are not currently installed on the client, installing, at the client, the enablement components for the applications listed in the installation control file on the client.

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