Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
2007-12-25
2007-12-25
Wong, Leslie (Department: 2164)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
C717S169000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11183663
ABSTRACT:
In generating difference information between different file versions, a software component distributor (SCD) receives new files and corresponding original files. The SCD generates a new map file, hex file, and device memory map (DMM) for the new file. Module information is read from the new file using information of the new map file and hex file. The SCD, using the module information, compares the new DMM with the DMM of the original file, identifying inserted and deleted modules of the new file in response to the comparison. The SCD identifies remaining modules of the new file in which the contents remain the same as corresponding modules of the original file, where the remaining modules are modules of the new file not identified as inserted modules. The SCD generates difference information representative of the inserted modules, deleted modules, and remaining modules in which the contents remain the same.
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