Appeal No. 2006-1707
Application No. 09/964,029
vendors to client’s systems. The invention may include a system
that determines which patches should be or should have been
applied to a system as well as a system for backing out
undesirable patches from the client’s system. The system may
also provide for collecting patches from vendors, interpreting
the client’s operating system type, and the amount of memory
needed to install the patch (specification, paragraph 0022). An
understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of
the independent claim 6, which is reproduced as follows:
6. A computer-implemented method of secure distribution of
vendor’s upgrades and vendor’s software patch or vendor’s
software to client’s system; wherein the method utilizes
such thing as vendors, vendor’s ftp sites, system software,
files, permissions referenced in the files, ownership of
files referenced in the vendors’ software patch, needed
vendor’s software patches, not needed vendor’s software
patches, directories, operating system type, operating
system version, operating system architecture, memory, disk
space, other layered products, other patches, and other
software upgrades; comprising the steps of:
determining which of the vendor’s software patches
should be applied to the client’s system,
collecting the vendor’s software patches from the
vendors by downloading them from the vendor’s ftp sites,
interpreting which of the files will be affected by
installation of the vendor’s software patches,
interpreting which of the directories will be affected
by th installation of the vendor’s software patches,
interpreting the operating system type, version and
architecture the vendor’s software patches apply to,
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