Patent ID: 9710289
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for rapid configuration of software, comprising: obtaining and analyzing a software configuration program to identify a method related to device specific information in the software configuration program, wherein the software configuration program is an installer program; adding an identification to the device specific information, obtained by the method related to the device specific information by replacing the method, related to the device specific information, as identified, with a new method including the identification, wherein the identification added to the device specific information is used to distinguish between different device specific information, and wherein the identification added is assigned to the method related to the device specific information and includes a data type, and wherein the identification added is defined as a string comprising the data type of the device specific information and an original value of the device specific information, and wherein a call to the new method returns the string instead of the original value; tracking and recording a path, as well as a row and a column of a software configuration file, where a specific string is written with the identification added; and determining a correspondence between the device specific information and a corresponding record location in the software configuration file based on the identification added.