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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2006
Ea-ee Jan, Ardsley, NY (US);
Benoit Emmanuel Maison, Wavre, BE;
Ea-Ee Jan, Ardsley, NY (US);
Benoit Emmanuel Maison, Wavre, BE;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of updating an application in a processing system, the aforesaid method comprising the steps of: (a) starting operation of a first version of an application in the aforesaid processing system; (b) starting operation of a second version of the aforesaid application in the aforesaid processing system; and (c) incrementally reallocating processing system resources from the aforesaid first version of the aforesaid application to a second version of the aforesaid application, such that at most one application selected from the aforesaid first version and the aforesaid second version of the aforesaid application operates at full capacity at any time, and such that at least one of the aforesaid first version and the aforesaid second version of the aforesaid application is operating at all times.