Patent ID: 7735057

Claim:
A method comprising: a computer system converting an installation package usable to install a software application on a target processing system from a first format to a second format, wherein the first format does not permit streaming of the installation package, wherein the second format permits streaming of the installation package, and wherein said converting includes replacing a first actual file in the installation package with a first dummy file and replacing a second actual file in the installation package with a second dummy file, wherein the first and second dummy files are subsequently replaceable at the target processing system with the first and second actual files, respectively, and wherein each of the first and second dummy files includes a respective header, and wherein remaining portions of the first and second dummy files are made up of null content; and the computer system streaming the converted installation package to the target processing system over a network, wherein said streaming causes the converted installation package to configure the target processing system for execution of the software application.