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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2005
William Cheng, San Gabriel, CA (US);
Kenneth Hwang, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Ravi Kannan, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Babu Katchapalayam, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Bing Liu, Alhambra, CA (US);
Balaji Narasimhan, Culver City, CA (US);
Gopal Ramanujam, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Jonathan Tran, Alhambra, CA (US);
William Cheng, San Gabriel, CA (US);
Kenneth Hwang, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Ravi Kannan, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Babu Katchapalayam, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Bing Liu, Alhambra, CA (US);
Balaji Narasimhan, Culver City, CA (US);
Gopal Ramanujam, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Jonathan Tran, Alhambra, CA (US);
McAfee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method update client computers of various end users with software updates for software products installed on the client computers. The system includes a service provider computer system, a number of client computers and software vendor computer systems communicating on a common network. The service provider computer system stores in an update database information about the software updates of diverse software vendors, identifying the software products for which software updates are available, information for identifying in the client computers the software products stored thereon, and information for determining for such products, which have software updates available. Users of the client computers connect to the service provider computer and obtain a current version of portions of the database. The client computer determines that software products stored thereon, and using this information, determines from the database, which products have updates available, based on product name and release information for the installed products. The user selects updates for installation. The selected updates are downloaded from the software vendor computer systems and installed on the client computer.