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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 10671370 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2020

Filed:

May. 30, 2018

Distributing file system states

Applicant:

Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);

Inventors:

Willard Woods, Raleigh, NC (US);

Colin Walters, Westford, MA (US);

Vincent Batts, Raleigh, NC (US);

Assignee:

Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);

Attorney:

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Primary Examiner:

Anibal Rivera

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/10 (2013.01); G06F 9/44 (2018.01); G06F 17/50 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 8/65 (2018.01); G06F 8/61 (2018.01); G06F 16/13 (2019.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01); G06F 16/17 (2019.01); G06F 16/18 (2019.01); G06F 16/174 (2019.01); G06F 16/178 (2019.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 16/903 (2019.01); G06F 8/654 (2018.01); G06F 16/27 (2019.01); G06F 8/60 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/65 (2013.01); G06F 8/61 (2013.01); G06F 16/137 (2019.01); G06F 16/1734 (2019.01); G06F 16/1752 (2019.01); G06F 16/1787 (2019.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01); G06F 16/1858 (2019.01); G06F 8/60 (2013.01); G06F 8/654 (2018.02); G06F 16/27 (2019.01); G06F 16/90344 (2019.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed herein is technology to capture and distribute a state of a file system that updates, removes, or adds a computer program to a computing device. An example method may include: analyzing a program package associated with a plurality of objects of a computer program; determining a state of a file system after an installation of the program package; generating a manifest that corresponds to the computer program and represents the state of the file system after the installation, the manifest comprising a hash tree that comprises object identification data of an object of the plurality of objects of the computer program; and providing the manifest to one or more computing devices.

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