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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 26, 1997
Randal Chilton Burns, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Darrell D Long, Soquel, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention discloses a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for generating, transmitting, replicating, and rebuilding in-place reconstructible software updates to a file from a source computer to a target computer updates to a file from a source computer to a target computer. The present invention stores the first version of the file and the updates to the first version of the file in the memory of the source computer. The first version is also stored in the memory of the target computer. The updates are then transmitted from the memory of the source computer to the memory of the target computer. The present invention uses these updates at the target computer to build the second version of the file in-place.