Patent ID: 11914983
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a plurality of instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing device, causes the one the one or more processors to:
access a stored disk image in response to a request to apply a patch to the stored disk image;
detect compressed extents within the stored disk image;
reorder the compressed extents to form one or more compressed forks within a virtual disk image;
virtually decompress at least one fork from the one or more compressed forks within the virtual disk image based on the request to apply the patch;
virtually write the at least one fork with the patch to the virtual disk image as an updated fork;
compress the updated fork; and
write the updated fork, as compressed, to storage to produce an updated, stored disk image.