Patent ID: 8726271
Filing Date: 2014-05-13
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of distributing a software application over a network with a computing device having a computer processor and computer-readable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and executable by the computer processor, the method comprising: installing a software application on a template server; creating an installation template of the software application using details of the installation of the software application on the template server, said installation template containing configuration directories and configuration files for said software application, wherein specific reference to the template server is replaced in said configuration directories and configuration files with a generic reference; and using one or more software tools to transfer said installation template to a computing system over a network, retrieve said configuration directories and said configuration files from said installation template, and replace the generic reference in said configuration directories and said configuration files with any computing system-specific references required by said software application with respect to said computing system.