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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2002
David Salim Hindawi, Berkeley, CA (US);
David Leigh Donoho, Stanford, CA (US);
Lisa Ellen Lippincott, Berkeley, CA (US);
Dennis S. Goodrow, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
James Milton Brown, Novato, CA (US);
Peter Lincroft, Berkeley, CA (US);
Peter Benjamin Loer, Oakland, CA (US);
Orion Yosef Hindawi, Berkeley, CA (US);
David Salim Hindawi, Berkeley, CA (US);
David Leigh Donoho, Stanford, CA (US);
Lisa Ellen Lippincott, Berkeley, CA (US);
Dennis S. Goodrow, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
James Milton Brown, Novato, CA (US);
Peter Lincroft, Berkeley, CA (US);
Peter Benjamin Loer, Oakland, CA (US);
Orion Yosef Hindawi, Berkeley, CA (US);
Bigfix, Inc., Emeryville, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for centralized policy management of large-scale networks () of computational devices is disclosed. The apparatus includes a number of distributed clients () run on registered computers (-), gathering policy advisories () and reporting () relevance () to a system administrator (). The system administrator may view the relevant messages () through a management interface () and deploy suggested actions to distributed clients (), where the actions are executed to apply the solutions of the advisories ().