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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2012
Paul William Chinn, San Jose, CA (US);
Eric Olaf Carlson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Cameron Stuart Birse, San Jose, CA (US);
James Mensch, San Jose, CA (US);
Ronnie Misra, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul William Chinn, San Jose, CA (US);
Eric Olaf Carlson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Cameron Stuart Birse, San Jose, CA (US);
James Mensch, San Jose, CA (US);
Ronnie Misra, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for updating software applications installed on client computing devices, creating a manifest file describing the differences between multiple versions of application archives present in an application distribution system, and coordinating an update process for updating the applications on the client computing devices are disclosed. A scheme of hard-linking to existing files, downloading new files, and erasing unwanted files can be used.