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US09436458B2 Updating a file using differences and file format therefor 有权
使用差异和文件格式更新文件

  • Patent Title: Updating a file using differences and file format therefor
  • Patent Title (中): 使用差异和文件格式更新文件
  • Application No.: US14188488
    Application Date: 2014-02-24
  • Publication No.: US09436458B2
    Publication Date: 2016-09-06
  • Inventor: Jonathan Clark
  • Applicant: VMware, Inc.
  • Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
  • Assignee: VMware, Inc.
  • Current Assignee: VMware, Inc.
  • Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
  • Main IPC: G06F9/44
  • IPC: G06F9/44 G06F17/30
Updating a file using differences and file format therefor
Abstract:
A method for updating and formatting a local file is described. An update file, having a newer version of the local file, is accessed from a server over a network and a list of new hash values corresponding to data blocks of the update file is retrieved. Divisions between the data blocks are located when a value of a rolling checksum reaches a particular value, the data blocks being of variable size. New hash values of the update file are compared with local hash values of the local file. For each of the new hash values not having a matching local hash value, the corresponding data block is downloaded from the server and written to a new file. For each of the new hash values having a matching local hash value, the corresponding block is copied from the local file to the new file.
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