Patent ID: 6305015
Filing Date: 2001-10-16
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
An architecture for an information processing system, said system comprising a hardware platform (20) that cooperates with a set of software products, said set of software products being subdivided into subsets called domains (21-24), each domain having at least one of said software products (40-42), and an interface called a descriptor (3), said descriptor providing access to a specific determined information (30-32), said specific determined information including at least one identifier (30) of the domain and data (32) describing the software products in the corresponding domain, said descriptor for at least one of said domains further including first and/or second information, said first information relating to predetermined installation and updating rules common to the system and said second information relating to at least one of said software products which has specific installation and updating rules, said second information allowing a control by the system of said specific installation and updating rules, and means for installing and/or updating said domains (21-24) with reference to said specific determined information (30-32).