Method of installing and configuring an application program within a computer system, and application program for facilitating the method
US6051032A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 9, 1997 |
| Grant date | Apr 18, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 9, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F8/61
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method of installing and configuring a computer program onto a computer system involves loading a default bundle of objects into the computer system along with configuration data of said objects, including attributes and inter-object relationships. Some of the default bundle of objects are model objects and these, along with their respective attributes and inter-object relationships, are sent to a systems administrator's display screen, where they may be altered. The model objects and the first-mentioned default bundle of objects are then merged together to form the bundle of image objects which represents a working version of the installed computer program.
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