Patent ID: 7389515
Filing Date: 2008-06-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer readable medium having at least one tangible medium and encoding computer executable steps, the computer executable steps causing a client computer system to deflate an application on the client computer system, the client computer system including one or more portions of software referenced by the application, the steps comprising: identifying the one or more portions referenced by the application to be deflated, the one or more portions operable to be deleted to deflate the application; deflating the application by deleting a first portion of the application to leave a second portion of the application loaded in the client computer system, the second portion of the application containing an install point indicator of the application; maintaining the install point indicator associated with the application to reinstall the deleted first portion of the deflated application, the install point indicator specifying a Uniform Resource Locator of a server from which the deleted first portion of the deflated application is requested; identifying the deflated application; accessing the second portion of the deflated application in the client computer system; determining the install point indicator of the deflated application, based on the second portion of the deflated application; sending an application request to Uniform Resource Locator of the server specified by the install point indicator; receiving the application and an associated library; and loading the application and the associated library into the client computer system.