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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2019
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp, Houston, TX (US);
Freeman Yufei Huang, Roseville, CA (US);
Matthew Lee Deter, Rocklin, CA (US);
Jorge Arturo Villavicencio Conejo, Roseville, CA (US);
Hari Babu Ravindran, Roseville, CA (US);
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for modifying software programs are disclosed. For instance, an example method for modifying a software program may include extracting, from a configuration program file, a future list of one or more future active entries relating to a future version of the software program and a future list of one or more future ghost entries relating to the future version of the software program, comparing the future lists of future active and ghost entries to current lists of current active entries and current ghost entries of a current version of the software program. Then, at least one upgrade or at least one downgrade of the current version of the software program is performed in response the comparison of the current and future lists.