Invention Application
- Patent Title: SOFTWARE UPGRADE AND DOWNGRADE USING GHOST ENTRIES
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Application No.: US16663477Application Date: 2019-10-25
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Publication No.: US20210124568A1Publication Date: 2021-04-29
- Inventor: Freeman Yufei Huang , Matthew Lee Deter , Jorge Arturo Villavicencio Conejo , Hari Babu Ravindran
- Applicant: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
- Applicant Address: US TX Houston
- Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
- Current Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Houston
- Main IPC: G06F8/65
- IPC: G06F8/65

Abstract:
Methods and systems for modifying software programs are disclosed. For instance, an example method for modifying a software program may include extracting, from a configuration program file, a future list of one or more future active entries relating to a future version of the software program and a future list of one or more future ghost entries relating to the future version of the software program, comparing the future lists of future active and ghost entries to current lists of current active entries and current ghost entries of a current version of the software program. Then, at least one upgrade or at least one downgrade of the current version of the software program is performed in response the comparison of the current and future lists.
Public/Granted literature
- US11068253B2 Software upgrade and downgrade using ghost entries Public/Granted day:2021-07-20
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