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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2003
Johnson Jiahui Qin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michelle Brent, Rocklin, CA (US);
Shane Herman, Austin, TX (US);
Johnson Jiahui Qin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michelle Brent, Rocklin, CA (US);
Shane Herman, Austin, TX (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention facilitates a model driven, scalable and integrated software method for publishing digital information in a convenient, coordinated and proper manner. The present invention includes a workflow open model that offers flexibility for very complex software publishing business processes and scalability and extensibility for a variety of software publishing datamodels (e.g. via XML technology). The architecture and implementations enable many different software publishing data models to seamlessly work together. This model-driven software publishing system is compatible with open standard workflow models and extensible XML language. It can publish software images according to different software data management models including software user authentication and authorization models, software information models, software product models, software composite models, software entitlement models, etc. In one embodiment each model will is described as business workflow tasks and defined as different Extensible Markup Language Document Type Definition (XML DTD) metadata for software models.