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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2018
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Kenneth B. Schleede, Webster, NY (US);
Noah Ullmann, Rochester, NY (US);
Yolanda R. Zhesnik, Webster, NY (US);
Jefferson Spiers Tuttle, Rochester, NY (US);
Keith Watson, Spencerport, NY (US);
Michael William Barrett, Fairport, NY (US);
Wendy Abbott, Rochester, NY (US);
Mirelsa Fontanes-Perez, Webster, NY (US);
Paul Roberts Conlon, South Bristol, NY (US);
Mark Allen Sixbey, Walworth, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A method of providing native scalable management of a fleet of managed devices, which includes establishing a Trust Community, which includes a sub-set of the managed devices, organizing the Trust Community, configuring one of the managed devices in the organized Trust Community as a Root Device to publish files via a file sharing function, adding the Root Device to a distribution profile stored in a database, creating or downloading files via the Root Device, and sharing the files with other devices in the organized Trust Community via the Root Device. Any devices on hold or offline are placed in a temporary working area for reorganizing. Download and install schedules are set up on a per device or a bulk basis according to policies. Files are placed into a staging area before re-distribution and checked for security, integrity, and/or completeness via checksums, digitally signed certificates, and/or internal structure checks.