Patent ID: 9727324
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: receiving an application recipe for producing an application delta, the application recipe comprising a plurality of unique identifiers, each unique identifier identifying a different corresponding component of a plurality of components of the application delta without containing the contents of the component, wherein the application delta corresponds to changes produced on a computing device by an installation of a corresponding application such that merging the application delta onto a computing device installs the corresponding application without requiring execution of an installer; accessing a central storage including a backup database for storing copies of content of each of a plurality of endpoint devices that are backed up to the central storage; determining, based on the plurality of identifiers, whether each of the plurality of components is available in the central storage including the backup database; and producing the application delta by retrieving the plurality of components from the central storage including the backup database.