Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Ronnie Glenn Blewer

Gaurav Sujit Roy

Shakti Ashirvad

Juan M Venegas, Iii

Amit Kumar Singh

Mengqi Hei

Prateek Tiwari

Aleksei Shelaev

An example software patch difference device includes a processor to: receive current software version indicators of software installed at monitored devices; generate, using a cryptographic function, respective identifiers of the current software version indicators for the monitored devices; retrieve, from storage, respective previous identifiers of previous software version indicators of the software installed at the monitored devices, the respective previous identifiers generated using the cryptographic function; compare, for the current software version indicators, a respective identifier with a respective previous identifier; when a difference is determined therebetween for a given device: replace, at the storage, respective previous software version indicators for the given device with respective current software version indicators; and transmit, to an analytics device, a respective software change indicator of the given device, to trigger the analytics device to generate a report indicating statistics for respective software versions installed at the monitored devices.

Software patch difference devices

An example of an apparatus including a memory storage unit to store telemetry data collected from a plurality of sources, wherein each source of the plurality of sources maintains confidentiality. The apparatus further includes an anonymizing engine to remove identifying information from the telemetry data to generate anonymized data. The apparatus also includes a communication interface to receive request from a client device for an upgrade. The request includes a requesting device configuration of the client device. The apparatus also includes a selection engine to select a subset of the anonymized data based on the requesting device configuration. Furthermore, the apparatus includes a comparison engine to analyze the subset of the anonymized data to determine a probability of an upgrade failure at the client device. Additionally, the apparatus includes an upgrade engine to implement the upgrade on the client device based on the probability.

Upgrades based on analytics from multiple sources

An example polling computing device includes a processor controlled to: determine an interval time to poll a monitored device in a queue of monitored devices based on a current processing time of a given monitored device being polled, and an average processing time for previously polled monitored devices; adjust a polling rate such that the interval time is between a minimum polling interval target and a maximum polling interval target; poll the monitored devices in the queue according to the polling rate; receive, in response to the poll, from the monitored devices in the queue, current software version indicators of software installed at the monitored devices; and transmit, to a software patch difference device, the current software version indicators, the software patch difference device to determine which of the monitored devices have been updated since a last poll based on the current software version indicators.

Polling computing devices

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