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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2000
Michel Casabona, Le Cres, FR;
Rainer Hapatzky, Fellbach, DE;
Hilar Hittinger, Eningen, DE;
Gerhard Widmayer, Herrenberg, DE;
Michel Casabona, Le Cres, FR;
Rainer Hapatzky, Fellbach, DE;
Hilar Hittinger, Eningen, DE;
Gerhard Widmayer, Herrenberg, DE;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and system for maintaining software products installed on client systems via network. It can advantageously be provided a hierarchy of overlay repositories, for example 'country level' and 'system level'. Country level repositories may contain national language support, code page definitions and other common customizations and add-ons specific for the plurality of clients of a whole country. A dedicated command is issued to a system or to a group of systems. Said command goes through the repository hierarchy—from local to top-level or reversed, local data overwrites central data—and creates a list of files. That list contains per file the location in the repository where it will be taken from during the later download.