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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 1996
Filed:
Aug. 10, 1993
George C Manthuruthil, Coppell, TX (US);
Shrikant N Parikh, Mesquite, TX (US);
Hari N Reddy, Colleyville, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An object having several components, such as functions, is located on a data processing system. Every time a user uses any of the components, the use of the component is measured. Information about the use of the components is provided to a user of the system. Selected components and constituents of these components are deleted from the system based on the user's command. Each component may have one or more constituents, which are either used exclusively by the component or are shared by several components. These constituents that are related to the deleted components are either deleted or updated to reflect deletion of the components from the system.