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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.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2019
Applicant:
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Inventors:
Ron Steinke, Tacoma, WA (US);
Scott D. Haskin, Renton, WA (US);
Assignee:
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/656 (2018.01); G06F 8/658 (2018.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/656 (2018.02); G06F 8/658 (2018.02); H04L 41/082 (2013.01);
Abstract
Advertising of nonlinear nondisruptive upgrades is presented herein. The method comprises in response to establishing a network connection to a group of networked devices, determining a software product feature associated with a software product based on tag data; generating an advertising bit mask representing the software product feature; and broadcasting the advertising bit mask.