Patent Application Number: 2009200584
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| Type of Prior Art | Issued Patents - US |
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| Country | United States of America |
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| Patent/Application # | 11/373238 |
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| Kind Code | United States (US) - United STATES Patent - A |
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| Patentee Name | NEC Corp. |
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| Relevant Pages, Columns, or Lines | Claim 1 |
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| URL | http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/... |
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| Filing Date | March 13, 2006 |
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| Additional Information | |
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Excerpt Claim 1 - A software update system for updating software of a plurality of machines from old software to new software through a network, said software update system comprising: a server which delivers new software to any other machines through the network and then sends a switchover notification from the old software to the new software to each of the machines to which the new software having been delivered; and a client which loads the new software which was received from the server to an area of memory which is different from the area where an old software has been placed and running and switches the old software to the new software on the memory when the switchover instruction is received from the server. |
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Claims
A software maintenance system for managing a software distribution system for distributing a software package to one or more target machines, the software distribution system comprising a plurality of software distribution parts, wherein at least one of the software distribution parts is provided at each target machine for receiving the software package, the software management system comprising: a software maintenance server for receiving a software package for updating one or more target machines, the software maintenance server configured to: define at least target machines for download of the software package; and provide the software package to the software distribution system; and at least one software maintenance unit for each software distribution part for acting as an interface between the software maintenance server and each software distribution part, each software maintenance unit configured to control the respective software distribution part to achieve distribution of the software package to each target machine via the respective software distribution part.
| Relevance | This application, which predates the subject application, demonstrates a network server containing update information that is distributed to client servers with an interface for receiving the update. |
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United States