Patent ID: 6947954

Claim:
A system from which a selected one or more of any of a plurality of images of software maybe selectively transferred to a destination device, said system comprising a server store storing one or more combined images thereon, each combined image including a first image of a first software and including a second image of a second software, said combined image comprising: a header of the combined image; a first file data of file data of the first image and not of the second image; a second file data of file data of the second image and not of the first image; a common file data of file data of both the first image and the second image; a first metadata of the first image, said first metadata identifying a location of the first file data and identifying a location of the file data of the first image within the common file data; a second metadata of the second image, said second metadata identifying a location of the second file data and identifying a location of the file data of the second image within the common file data; and a signature of the combined image whereby the first image and/or the second image can be imaged from said combined image as a function of the first metadata and/or the second metadata, respectively, and whereby the size of the combined image is less than the total size of the first image and the second image.