Appeal No. 1999-2720
Application No. 08/580,965
application.
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for
maintaining source control for new successive versions of
software where modifications have been made to a first version
S1 are not included in the new version S3 (specification, page
1, and figure 1). The invention allows changes in a new
version S3 of the software to be incorporated into the
modified initial version of the software S2 (specification,
page 3, lines 3-5). The difference between the new version S3
and the initial
version S1 is integrated into a copy of the initial version
S1', and the integrated copy is then integrated with a copy of
the modified initial version S2 to yield a modified new
version S4 (figures 4(a) through 4(d), and specification, page
7, lines 9-30 through page 9, lines 1-14).
Independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method of maintaining version control for an
initial S1 of software stored in a memory, where the initial
version has been modified to yield a modified initial version
S2 of the software that is also stored in the memory, the
method comprising the steps, performed by a data processing
system, of:
2
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