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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2015
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Kimberly T. Bailey, Raleigh, NC (US);
Thomas K. McCarthy, Durham, NC (US);
Michael W. Stayton, Cary, NC (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/445 (2006.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); G06F 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44505 (2013.01); G06F 9/461 (2013.01); G06F 9/54 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for managing settings of applications. A request from an application to store runtime settings currently being used by the application is identified. In response to identifying the request, the runtime settings are then stored on in a repository of runtime settings. In one or more examples, the application is running on an operating system on a computer system, and the request is communicated through a common system service of the operating system.