US RE40,633 E1
User centric product files distribution
Swain W. Porter, 550 Kirkland Way Suite 404, Kirkland, Wash. 98033 (US)
Filed on Mar. 11, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/78,918.
Application 09/323579 is a continuation in part of application No. 09/177443, filed on Oct. 21, 1998, granted, now 6,195,796.
Application 11/078918 is a reissue of application No. 09/323579, filed on Jun. 01, 1999, now 6,532,588, filed on Mar. 11, 2003.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 9/445 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 717—170  [717/177; 717/122; 707/203; 715/229; 709/223] 64 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer implemented method comprising:
generating versioning control information for a plurality of source/object files of a program product; and
distributing a plurality of [ the versioning control information to one or more user or non-user computer systems, wherein a user computer system stores the versioning control information for the user computer system's own use, and a non-user computer system correspondingly stores one or more ] copies of the versioning control information for storage for a plurality of [ one or more ] user computer systems, with the storage of the versioning control information being performed on a user computer system by user computer system basis, one copy of the versioning control information per user computer system [ , enabling each user computer system to use the corresponding copy of the versioning control information to selectively generate a version of the program product desired by the user computer system independent of other user computer systems] .