Patent ID: 7500234
Filing Date: 2009-03-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented system-updating method for updating software installed in a user computer system, said method comprising the steps of: acquiring user computer system information including information on hardware employed in said user computer system and information on said software installed in said user computer system; constructing a test environment for testing operations of said user computer system based on said acquired user computer system information; updating said software in said test environment by using a software-updating patch; determining whether or not said operations of said user computer system are carried out normally by execution of said updated software in said test environment; supplying said software-updating patch to said user computer system; and inserting a code of said software-updating patch into an operating system (OS) running on said user computer system, and inserting a branch code into an obsolete code of said OS in order to branch to said code of said software-updating patch.