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

Claim 14:
15. A computing device comprising:
one or more memories; and
one or more processors communicatively coupled to the one or more memories and configured to execute instructions stored in the one or more memories for performing operations of:
accessing a stored disk image in response to a request to apply a patch to the stored disk image;
detecting compressed extents within the stored disk image;
reordering the compressed extents to form one or more compressed forks within a virtual disk image;
virtually decompressing 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 writing the at least one fork with the patch to the virtual disk image as an updated fork;
compressing the updated fork; and
writing the updated fork, as compressed, to storage to produce an updated, stored disk image.