Incremental updates based on graph theory for consumer electronic devices

This paper presents a method for incremental updating on consumer electronic devices, called differential compression based on Dijkstra algorithm (DDIFF). It describes the similarities between the old and new versions as a directed weighted graph. In the graph, the shortest path between the start and end vertices corresponds to the minimal delta. As a result, the delta-encoding problem is reduced to the single-source shortest path problem. Experiments show that the proposed method is feasible, and average data transmission saving is as high as 69.3%. In comparison with the existing methods, DDIFF constructs the minimal patch, and the patch costs less time to apply¹.