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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:
Jan. 26, 2016

Filed:

Sep. 06, 2012
Applicants:

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);

Inventors:

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);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 9/445 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01); H04L 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/65 (2013.01); G06F 9/44 (2013.01); G06F 9/445 (2013.01); G06F 17/00 (2013.01); G06F 17/30 (2013.01); H04L 9/00 (2013.01); H04L 63/0428 (2013.01);
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.


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