| 摘要 |
The present invention teaches a variety of methods, apparatus and data structures for providing data driven patching. According to one embodiment, patches are stored in a known format in a discernible location. In the described embodiment, each fragment code may have a corresponding patch library. This enables the patches to be located and analyzed in a quiescent state. In a method aspect of the present invention, the operating system, or a separate utility program, can evaluate and selectively add patches. Therefore, the present invention introduces a patch integrity validation layer into the patching process. In another method aspect, the invention teaches evaluating the patches in a quiescent state whereby the patches introduced by a program or a combination of programs may be exhaustively evaluated prior to execution.
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