Method and system for maintaining software via network

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7036121
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09696399

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The present invention relates to a method and system for maintaining software products installed on client systems via network. It can advantageously be provided a hierarchy of overlay repositories, for example 'country level' and 'system level'. Country level repositories may contain national language support, code page definitions and other common customizations and add-ons specific for the plurality of clients of a whole country. A dedicated command is issued to a system or to a group of systems. Said command goes through the repository hierarchy—from local to top-level or reversed, local data overwrites central data—and creates a list of files. That list contains per file the location in the repository where it will be taken from during the later download.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Casabona, Michel Le Cres, FR 1 20
Hapatzky, Rainer Fellbach, DE 1 20
Hittinger, Hilar Eningen, DE 1 20
Widmayer, Gerhard Herrenberg, DE 8 355

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