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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2024

Filed:

Sep. 23, 2022
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Damien P. Sorresso, San Francisco, CA (US);

Eric B. Tamura, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Ezekiel T. Runyon, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupetino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/48 (2006.01); G06F 8/65 (2018.01); G06F 8/71 (2018.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 8/41 (2018.01); G06F 8/61 (2018.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); G06F 21/12 (2013.01); G06F 21/72 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/65 (2013.01); G06F 21/572 (2013.01); G06F 8/41 (2013.01); G06F 8/44 (2013.01); G06F 8/61 (2013.01); G06F 8/71 (2013.01); G06F 9/441 (2013.01); G06F 21/123 (2013.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 21/72 (2013.01); G06F 2221/033 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects and features include maintaining at least one auxiliary disk image on a computing device. Certain code that is aligned with the base operating system of the computing device resides in and is executed from the auxiliary disk image. In one example, a computing device receives an update asset and uses it to patch the auxiliary disk image. The computing device executes the updated code from the patched disk image without rebooting or otherwise restarting the base operating system. The existing auxiliary disk image may be replaced with the patched disk image in response to a reboot or some other event, or while executing the code in the patched disk image from memory.


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