Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Patent
1997-11-26
2000-01-25
Homere, Jean R.
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
707 10, 707204, 707202, 395712, G06F 1730
Patent
active
060187476
ABSTRACT:
The present invention discloses a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for generating, transmitting, replicating, and rebuilding in-place reconstructible software updates to a file from a source computer to a target computer updates to a file from a source computer to a target computer. The present invention stores the first version of the file and the updates to the first version of the file in the memory of the source computer. The first version is also stored in the memory of the target computer. The updates are then transmitted from the memory of the source computer to the memory of the target computer. The present invention uses these updates at the target computer to build the second version of the file in-place.
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Burns Randal Chilton
Long Darrell D. E.
Homere Jean R.
International Business Machines - Corporation
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