Data processing: software development – installation – and managem – Software upgrading or updating
Reexamination Certificate
2004-11-18
2010-11-02
Kang, Insun (Department: 2193)
Data processing: software development, installation, and managem
Software upgrading or updating
C717S169000, C717S171000, C717S172000, C717S174000, C717S175000, C717S176000, C717S177000, C707S610000, C707S638000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07827544
ABSTRACT:
A technique for updating elements in a data storage facility, including a single server or a multi-server system, such as by providing updated internal code packages to the elements. The update is performed using a fixed state machine, where the elements are updated in a coordinated manner within the constraints of the state machine. In a multi-server device, the code packages are distributed to elements associated with the different servers in one traversal of the state machine, during distribute states of the state machine. The distributed code packages are activated in activate states of the state machine in one traversal of the state machine, so there is parallel activation. The code packages can be grouped in a flexible way by configuring an external update bundle used by the state machine. The distributing of the code is based on the grouping.
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TDB-ACC-No: NA92098, Entry Point Table for Licensed Internal Code, Sep. 1, 1992, vol. 34, issue 4A, pp. 8-10.
Butt Edward G.
Excoffier Franck
Johnson Steven D.
Goudy, Esq. Kurt
International Business Machines - Corporation
Kang Insun
Scully , Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.
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