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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2015
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Tomasz Kaminski, Issaquah, WA (US);
Suriya Narayanan, Redmond, WA (US);
Jakob Steen Hansen, Issaquah, WA (US);
Robert Badawy, Redmond, WA (US);
Andrew William Jewsbury, Seattle, WA (US);
Nitinkumar Shah, Seattle, WA (US);
Ian Beck, Sammamish, WA (US);
Liang Yu, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A computing system comprises, in one example, an upgrade system configured to detect a user upgrade input indicating that a base version of a computing system is to be upgraded, by applying a set of upgrade changes to the base version, to obtain an upgraded version of the computing system, a difference generation system configured to retrieve a customized version of the base version of the computing system and identify that the customized version corresponds to the base version with customizations applied, a combining engine configured to obtain the customizations applied to the base version and the upgrade changes, and combine the customizations with the upgrade changes to obtain a full set of changes, and a difference application engine configured to apply the full set of changes to the base version of the computing system to obtain a customized, upgraded version of the computing system.