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Patent Application Number: 2009200584

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Mark Webbink (over 2 years ago)

Regarding Claim 1 - Every element of this claim appears to exist in Red Hat's Red Hat Network - Satellite. That system consists of a satellite server that receives provisioning (installation and updating information) from a central maintenance system and then automatically pushes the installation and update information to target machines based on their profiles. The satellite servers are stationed at customer sites to manage all of the machines on the network.

Mik Clarke (over 2 years ago)

If I understand this right, there is one company that is distributing software updates to a number of different customers. Each customer has their own mix of servers, clients and products. The invention provides a way for the company to package software updates so that they can be downloaded by the customers and then fed into a 3rd party software distribution server running within the customers enterprise (along with the necessary configuration for that software server) so that the updates are then pushed out to the machines that the customer has chosen to apply the updates to.

The saving/advantage/novelty would seem to be in the packaging of the instructions for the 3rd party software distribution server, avoid a scenario where each customer had to update their 3rd party software distributor with the correct distribution rules for the package.

Anyone agree/disagree?

Basil Newnham (over 2 years ago)

Hi Mik,

From what I understand the 3rd party element would be similar to the functionality already built into Microsofts Group Policy Objects (as apposed to WSUS) with the deployment of .msi packages, this allows you to deploy and update software packages based on rules. It would also seem to cover the server packages developed in the 3rd party Standard Operating Environment markets where patch management and installation is centralised and automated. In the opensource realm I would have to agree with Mark on this, it seem to be very similar to the deployment systems used by Linux distributions such as Red Hat, Debian and Ubuntu (I believe that Ubuntu also allows central control similar to WSUS but I will need to research to confirm).

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