Data processing: software development – installation – and managem – Software upgrading or updating – Including multiple files
Reexamination Certificate
2011-05-03
2011-05-03
Vu, Tuan Anh (Department: 2193)
Data processing: software development, installation, and managem
Software upgrading or updating
Including multiple files
Reexamination Certificate
active
07937697
ABSTRACT:
A software patch management solution is proposed. The devised solution is based on the idea of automating the installation of the patches through a software distribution infrastructure. An automation engine is added to a distribution server. The automation engine interfaces with a patch provider acting as a proxy, which stores a local copy of the patches and of a patch catalogue for detecting corresponding vulnerabilities. The automation engine automatically builds a distribution plan for deploying the patches to the relevant endpoints, according to a vulnerability catalogue that stores the actual exposures of the endpoints. The distribution plan arranges the required activities in the correct order, to minimize the number of rebooting of the endpoints; the distribution plan ends with an activity for scanning the endpoints, to update the vulnerability catalogue accordingly.
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Alberti Enrica
Arcese Mauro
Bernardini Gianluca
Gangemi Rosario
Piciietti Luigi
Garg Rakesh
Garg Law Firm, PLLC
International Business Machines - Corporation
LaBaw Jeffrey S.
Vu Tuan Anh
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