SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INSTALLING SOFTWARE UPDATES IN A COMPUTER NETWORKING ENVIRONMENT

Patent №

US 7,546,595

Granted

2009-06-09

Filed 2004

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

1

kr

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10966621

The present invention provides a system and method of installing software updates to computing devices connected to an enterprise network. More specifically, the present invention provides a system and method of installing software updates based on input received from a system administrator or similar entity. When a command to install a software update is received, the present invention obtains the requested software update from a download center and causes the software update to be transmitted to client computing devices that need the functionality provided by the software update. Then the software update is installed in accordance with the input previously obtained from the system administrator.

AI classification

Knowledge representation0.55
AI hardware0.32
Planning0.10
Vision0.05
Evolutionary computation0.02
Speech0.01
Natural language0.00
Machine learning0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 159040632

Assignors

WICKHAM, ROBERT T., DEO, VINAY, MAZIAK, ADRIAN ARKADIUSZ, MACMAHON MEL, COPELAND, BRUCE W., KHAN, SHAFQAT U., WELKER, ADAM D., IQBAL, KHUZAIMA, MUFTI, YASSER, BISHT, BIPPEN

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