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Automated software updating based on prior activity

US9063818B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateJun 6, 2011
Grant dateJun 23, 2015
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Expiry dateJul 16, 2032

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F8/70
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training a mathematical model to predict whether a future software update will be applied to one of the one or more computing devices using information collected from the devices, the collected information including the following for each of a plurality of software updates made available during the one or more time periods: an identification of software to which the update applies, whether the software update was installed on any of the computing devices, and, if so, whether the software installation was successful.

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