Patent ID: 6944857
Filing Date: 2005-09-13
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An article of manufacture for use in a data processing system for updating an application program for execution by a particular user on a local data processing system, said data processing system comprising the local data processing system and a remote data processing system, said article of manufacture comprising at least one computer-readable storage medium having remote code executed by the remote data processing system and local code executed by the local data processing system to cause operations to be performed, the operations, comprising: defining, by the remote code, a user configuration of the application program corresponding to the particular user of the application program at the remote data processing system, the user configuration describing an item from which the application program is built; determining, by the remote code, that the user configuration corresponds to the particular user; downloading, by the remote code, the user configuration to the local data processing system in response to determining that the user configuration corresponds to the particular user; determining, by at least one of the remote code and the local code, if the item described in the user configuration has been updated with an updated item; retrieving, by at least one of the remote code and the local code, the updated item if there is the updated item for the item; and building, by the local code, the application program with the updated item.