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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.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 06, 2018
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Omer Tripp, Bronx, NY (US);

Marco Pistoia, Amawalk, NY (US);

Pietro Ferrara, White Plains, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/656 (2018.01); G06F 11/36 (2006.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01); G06F 8/61 (2018.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/656 (2018.02); G06F 8/64 (2013.01); G06F 9/4418 (2013.01); G06F 11/302 (2013.01); G06F 11/3612 (2013.01); H04L 67/34 (2013.01); G06F 2201/865 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, system and computer readable program product for cooperative modifying of a software program. In an embodiment, the invention provides a method comprising monitoring two or more running executions of the same software program at two or more user computer systems; detecting an issue with one of the executions; suspending the running executions of the software program; determining a fix to the software program; modifying the software program with the fix on the two or more user computer systems; and resuming the running executions of the software program. In an embodiment, the executions are run at one server computer; and modifying the software program with the fix comprises performing one server instance update to modify all the running executions of the software program with the fix. In an embodiment, the method further comprises issuing notifications to users that the software program has been modified with the fix.


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