Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jianbo Hou

Edward F Reus

Marc Shepard

Mazhar Naveed Mohammed

Thottam Sriram

Jimin Li

David B Dehghan

David Cris Hennessey

Derek Cheng

Nirmal Rajesh Soy

Hrishikesh S Raje

Varadarajan Thiruvillamalai

Jason J Roberts

Vibha Rathi

Xiang He

Vidyasankar Raman

Jefferson Davis

Neelima N Putrevu

Lie Ma

A software distribution mechanism evaluates network addresses of requesting clients to determine a location for each client. The clients from a particular location are grouped together and a fraction of those clients in a particular group are recipients of a software distribution. The faction is adjusted to enable more or fewer clients to download, thus effectively throttling the amount of bandwidth consumed by a mass distribution event. The fraction may be adjusted for particular geographical locations and the time of day to make more effective use of network bandwidth.

Software deployment using client location

Provided are arrangements for delivering customized application or update notifications corresponding to a software application so that a user may be informed of the value of the application or update. In addition, the notifications may be rendered by a configurable notification mechanism so that the behavior of the notification, i.e., when and how often it is displayed, to what users and in what conditions, and the like, is also configurable. In this way, users become more invested in the application or update, are more likely to install the same, and become more aware of what changes to expect following installation.

Dynamic, customizable and configurable notification mechanism

A hierarchical software update distribution system and method for distributing software updates is presented. The update distribution system includes a root update service node and at least one update service node. In an update distribution system, each update service node, except the root update service node, has one parent update service node. Each update service node may function as a parent update service node to child update service nodes.

Update distribution system architecture and method for distributing software

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