Patent ID: 6377951
Filing Date: 2002-04-23
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A computer-readable medium having computer-executable components for updating modules of information via a communications channel interconnecting a plurality of computers, wherein each module of information includes a plurality of module blocks of information, the computer-readable medium having computer-executable components comprising:(a) a comparison component for comparing an out-of-date module of information stored in memory of a first computer to an updated module of information stored in memory of a second computer to identify which module blocks in the updated module of information contain more recent information; (b) a download component for downloading from the second computer to the first computer, only the module blocks of the updated module containing more recent information that were identified by the comparison component; and (c) an update component for replacing corresponding module blocks in the out-of-date module with the module blocks of the updated module containing more recent information that were downloaded by the download component.