Patent ID: 7024471
Filing Date: 2006-04-04
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for updating client computers with user specific application enablement, comprising: creating, at a server, a component control file which defines enablement components needed to run applications from the server assigned to a user on a client and actions to be performed to install the enablement components, wherein the enablement components comprise required changes to an operating system of the client; creating, at a server, an installation control file which lists the applications that have been assigned to the user and the enablement components from the component control file which must be installed in order to execute the applications that have been assigned to the user on the client; determining, at the client, if the enablement components for applications listed in the installation control file are currently installed on the client; and if the enablement components for the applications listed in the installation control file are not currently installed on the client, installing, at the client, the enablement components for the applications listed in the installation control file on the client.