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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 21, 1998
Michael L. Saboff, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrew Maag, Austin, TX (US);
Alan McGowen, San Jose, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention describes a hierarchical registry for allowing multiple applications to use different versions of a software component on the same system. Each version of a software component has a base entry in the registry. Each base entry has rules, one of which must be met to use version of the software component corresponding to that base entry. The registry may also have a default base entry, which is used if no other base entry has one of its rules met. Each rule may have several criteria, all of which must be met to satisfy that rule. Each base entry may be marked as deleted rendering the corresponding version of the software component inaccessible except by applications currently accessing the version marked as deleted.