Software installation method, apparatus and program product

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9104813-B2
Application number	US-201213716126-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 15, 2012
Priority date	Dec 15, 2012
Publication date	Aug 11, 2015
Grant date	Aug 11, 2015

Abstract

A software preload arrangement uses a central server to store the software repository(ries) for various computer instruction files offered for preload into a system being manufactured. To execute the preload, a client workstation is used to execute the actual preload steps for a system under test (SUT). When the SUT needs a given piece of the software release, data is moved down to the client from the server and cached there for delivery to the system under test. In accordance with an important characteristic of this invention, the caching is predictive. That is, data is held in or moved to the client workstation based upon recent activity, so that the time needed to prepare a preload for a system under test is shortened.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
parsing a computer instruction file to be installed on a system under test into segments of selected size and storing the segments accessibly to a computer network having a repository server computer system and a plurality of client workstation computer systems;
determining by interaction between a client workstation and a connected system under test computer system whether the parsed computer instruction file is to be installed on the…

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Stanquist Gerald Glen
• Stocker Brian Walter

Classifications

• G06F11/3688 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F8/61

  Physics · mapped topic