Appeal No. 1998-0717
Application 08/099,841
The disclosed invention pertains to a method and
apparatus for automatically distributing individual parts of a
package to software entities that can use the individual
parts. Each individual part has a part kind attribute
characterizing a known inherent feature of the information in
that part and a part type attribute defining the type of
software entity that can use the information in that part.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A computer program product having a computer-
readable medium embodying a package data structure for
automatically routing computer information within a computer
system, said computer information originating from an
information source and being automatically dispatched to at
least one of a plurality of software entities within said
computer system by a package manager, the package of the
computer program product comprising:
(a) one or more parts containing said computer
information usable by at least one of said plurality of
software entities, each part having an associated part kind
attribute characterizing a known inherent feature of that
portion of the computer information contained in said part and
an associated part type attribute defining the type of
software entity that can use that portion of the computer
information contained in the part; and
(b) a package directory describing characteristics of
said package and of said computer information, said
characteristics including the part type attribute and the part
kind attribute of each of the one or more parts, said package
directory being used by said package manager to route said
computer information contained in said one or more parts to at
least one of said plurality of software entities.
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