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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2010
Giovanni Motta, San Diego, CA (US);
Ashish Varma, San Diego, CA (US);
Brian O'neill, San Juan Capistrano, CA (US);
Lashawn Mcghee, San Diego, CA (US);
Giovanni Motta, San Diego, CA (US);
Ashish Varma, San Diego, CA (US);
Brian O'Neill, San Juan Capistrano, CA (US);
LaShawn McGhee, San Diego, CA (US);
Palm, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of updating computer software includes identifying an orphaned computer file in a second version of computer software, the orphaned computer file having a name that does not correspond to any name of a computer file in a first version of computer software and computing symmetric divergence between the orphaned computer file and each computer file in the first version of computer software. The method also includes choosing a file from the computer files in the first version of computer software that yields a minimum value of symmetric divergence between the file and the orphaned computer file and using the file as a reference file for compressing the orphaned computer file.