APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE FOR IDENTIFYING, DOWNLOADING AND INSTALLING APPLICABLE SOFTWARE UPDATES

Patent №

US 7,987,459

Granted

2011-07-26

Filed 2005

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

3

planning · evo · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11082326

An application programming interface (API) provides a set of functions for application developers to build software programs that automatically detect, download, and install desired software updates.

AI classification

AI hardware1.00
Evolutionary computation0.98
Planning0.55
Knowledge representation0.13
Natural language0.11
Vision0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 158990161

Assignors

VINCENT, JOSHUAH, KUMAR, KORUKONDA NAVEEN, CHOW, CHUNG YIU, SHOWMAN, KENNETH A.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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