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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:
Jan. 30, 2007

Filed:

Mar. 19, 2002
Applicants:

Brian Eric Becker, Colorado Springs, CO (US);

Michael Robert Hanson, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Alain Jules Mayer, San Francisco, CA (US);

Michael Todd Schroepfer, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Brian Eric Becker, Colorado Springs, CO (US);

Michael Robert Hanson, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Alain Jules Mayer, San Francisco, CA (US);

Michael Todd Schroepfer, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system and method for the automated provisioning of software applications onto one or more computers. The provisioning system uses a model of the application, which describes the application in terms of its software features and the actions to manipulate the application. The model preferably describes this information in a general way, such that it is independent of any environmental characteristics associated with the computers. The provisioning system also receives as input a set of references to selected ones of the computers onto which the application is to be provisioned.


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