Computerized system and associated method for optimally controlling storage and transfer of computer programs on a computer network

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A computerized system and an associated method for optimally controlling storage and transfer of computer programs between computers on a network to facilitate interactive program usage. In accordance with the method, an applications program is stored in a nonvolatile memory of a first computer as a plurality of individual and independent machine-executable code modules. In response to a rquest from a second computer transmitted over a network link the first , computer retrieves a selected one of the machine-executable code modules and only that selected code module from the memory and transmits the selected code module over the network link to the second computer.