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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:
Feb. 15, 2022

Filed:

Nov. 15, 2019
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Gray Cannon, Miami, FL (US);

Marco Aurelio Stelmar Netto, Sao Paulo, BR;

Ashraf Ali Thajudeen, Vriddhachalam, IN;

Aaron K. Baughman, Cary, NC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2018.01); G06F 8/65 (2018.01); G06N 3/08 (2006.01); G06N 3/04 (2006.01); G06F 16/9536 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/65 (2013.01); G06F 16/9536 (2019.01); G06N 3/04 (2013.01); G06N 3/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

Advising on computer software upgrade decisions for enterprise software by analyzing respective vendor information correlated to influences from user data including periodically checking for vendor software updates for selected software programs. A plurality of factors are assessed for software update risks, and the factors include dimensions of importance of each of the factors. Opinion and comments from users on public websites are collected regarding the software and the software updates. Each of the dimensions for each of one or more factors for a selected software program are weighted. The weighting is based on an importance for each of the dimensions for a respective user. A risk score is calculated based on the assessed software update risk for each dimension which includes the weighting of each of the dimensions, and a notification is sent to a user recommending the software upgrade or not based on the risk score.


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