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OwnerAlbert Bosscha, Gerard Dekker +1inventors
InventorsAlbert Bosscha, Gerard Dekker, Antonius Johannes Van De Ven
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A method is described of providing patches for software installed on a plurality of client systems. The method may include obtaining computer program code for inclusion in a patch, the code being arranged to co-operate with at least part of the software installed on a client system to perform a certain function after a patch has been applied in the client system. A first patch for application may be provided in at least one first client system with an instruction to update the actual patch level maintained in the client system to reflect a next level. The method may provide a second patch for at least one other of the client systems with an instruction to update the actual patch level maintained in the client system to reflect the next level. The code may be provided only in the first of the first and second patches.
Method of providing patches for software installed on a plurality of client systems, each having at least a data processor and memory and each being programmed to maintain information representative of an actual patch level and to generate output data by processing input data provided to an installed application with data representative of a required patch level only if the actual patch level is in a pre-defined relation to the required patch level, which method includes:
Method of processing patches provided to a client system having a processor and memory, an interface for receiving patches and an interface for loading input data for an application installed on the client system, which method includes maintaining information representative of an actual patch level and generating output data by processing input data provided to the application only if the actual patch level is in a pre-defined relation to a required patch level indicated in information provided with the input data, wherein the client system is configured to update the actual patch level maintained in the client system to reflect a next level upon application of a patch provided with an appropriate instruction, characterised by storing at least one identification value in the client system and allowing the client system to accept a patch only if each stored identification value is in a pre-defined relation to a respective one of a set of at least one target identification value provided with the patch.
Method of providing patches for software installed on a plurality of client systems, each having at least a data processor and memory and each being programmed to maintain information representative of an actual patch level and to generate output data by processing input data provided to an installed application with data representative of a required patch level only if the actual patch level is in a pre-defined relation to the required patch level, which method includes:
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