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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:
Mar. 09, 2010

Filed:

Nov. 27, 2006
Applicants:

Catharine Van Ingen, Bellevue, WA (US);

Anatoliy Panasyuk, Bellevue, WA (US);

Steve E. Olsson, Camano Island, WA (US);

Guhan Suriyanarayanan, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Catharine Van Ingen, Bellevue, WA (US);

Anatoliy Panasyuk, Bellevue, WA (US);

Steve E. Olsson, Camano Island, WA (US);

Guhan Suriyanarayanan, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A backup file is generated to capture the current state of a computer. The computer state may be restored to the computer in a hybrid manner at a later time by accessing some files and/or data included in the backup file and downloading other files contained in a list in the backup file. By listing some files rather than including the actual files in the backup file, the backup file may be generated faster and require less processing and memory resources. When the computer state is restored, secondary files and computer state data contained in the backup file are installed to the computer. A list of primary files in the backup file is accessed, each primary file is retrieved from one or more remote publishers over a network, and the retrieved primary files are installed.


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