Patent ID: 7100159

Claim:
A method for customizing one or more software distributors including one or more software groupings and one or more interactive control programs or scripts and residing on a software source server compatible with the software distributors from a control server managed by an operating system different from and incompatible with that managing the software source server, comprising: storing the software distributors in a serialized form on the control server; copying the software distributors from the control server to the software source server; de-serializing the software distributors on the software source server; using one or more programs or scripts running on the control server, gathering user information defining how the software included in the grouping is to be customized; passing this user information from the control server to the software source server; using one or more programs or scripts running on the software source server, creating one or more response files on the software source server containing the user information; and using the interactive control programs or scripts running on the software source server, customizing the software grouping under the control of the response file preparatory to installing the software contained in the software groupings.