US 2013/0174142 A1 · RECONFIGURATION OF COMPUTER SYSTEM TO ALLOW APPLICATION INSTALLATION

Abstract

A method and apparatus for installing an application on a computer are disclosed. Following receipt of a request to install an application, a software state, comprising the new application and several of the applications installed on the computer, is derived. Then, the method determines whether the software state can be implemented on the computer. If the software state cannot be implemented on the computer, then the method derives another software state. This is repeated until the derived software state can be implemented on the computer system, or until determining that no software state exists which can be implemented on the computer system.

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Dependent claims

A method of managing applications installed on a computer system, comprising:

receiving a request to install a first application on the computer system;
determining whether the computer system can support a first software state representing the first application and applications currently installed on the computer system;
and
upon determining the first software state cannot be supported on the computer system:
successively evaluating, by operation of one or more computer processors, one or more second software states, wherein each second software state includes at least the first application as having been installed on the computer system and a distinct subset of one or more of the applications as having been uninstalled from the computer system, until identifying a second software states that can be supported on the computer system.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Reconfiguration of computer system to allow application installation

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Reconfiguration of computer system to allow application installation

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Abstract

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