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Yes, that's really all to it. Compute the delta from the current revision to the base and keep that delta on the user's computer. It seems that because they ha
by acqq 5y ago
Yes, that's really all to it. Compute the delta from the current revision to the base and keep that delta on the user's computer.
It seems that because they haven't done that until now (keeping the delta to the base locally) they distributed these same otherwise locally computable deltas to every Windows computer in the world with every update!
If I understood it correctly they patented that "approach" and wrote this much (or more) to make it appear more clever and worth of a patent?
"1] The approach described above was filed on 03/12/2021 as U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 63/160,284 “REVERSE UPDATE DATA GENERATION”"