US 2022/0188088 A1 · REPOSITORY INCLUDING EXCLUSION LIST

Abstract

Systems and methods of executing and/or provisioning an application in an application specific runtime environment or general runtime environment are disclosed. The application specific runtime environment or general runtime environment are optionally defined by an application environment specification to include a minimal or reduced set of software resources required for execution of the application. These software resources are optionally stored in a resource repository that includes resources associated with a plurality of operating systems and/or executable applications. Various embodiments of the invention include the development of hierarchical resource metadata configured to characterize the various files, packages and file families included in the resource repository. In some embodiments this metadata is used to select between files when provisioning an application specific runtime environment. Various embodiments of the invention include use of an exclusion list to manage conflicts between same named files.

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Dependent claims

A system comprising:

a computing device;
a repository configured to store a plurality of resources and repository metadata, the repository metadata being configured to characterize at least one file family and a plurality of files included within the file family, the repository metadata including an exclusion list comprising identifiers of packages within the at least one file family that include members of the plurality of files having same names;
and
a provisioning server configured to select files from among the plurality of files using the exclusion list and to provision an executable application or an operating system on the computing device by providing the selected files to the computing device.

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Abstract

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