Patent ID: 9489186
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method of dynamically recommending configuration changes to an operating system image, the method comprising: monitoring, by a processor of a computing device, configurations of a plurality of deployed copies of a master operating system (OS) image on a plurality of client systems, wherein monitoring configurations of the plurality of deployed copies of the master OS image comprises: detecting, by the processor of the computing device, a changes in one or more configurations of a first set of deployed copies of the plurality of deployed copies, including examining the received usage information to identify common changes made by users in one or more configurations of the first set of deployed copies, determining that at least a predetermined threshold of the deployed copies of the master OS image installed a particular application after being deployed, and generating a configuration recommendation based on the common changes of the one or more configurations to the installed particular application; identifying, by the processor of the computing device, a second set of deployed copies that have not installed the particular application after being deployed, the second set of deployed copies that have not installed the particular application after being deployed consists of all of the deployed copies in the plurality of deployed copies that have not installed the particular application after being deployed; and transmitting, by the processor of the computing device, to the identified second set of deployed copies that have not installed the particular application after being deployed, the generated configuration recommendation that recommends installation of the particular application on each client system hosting the second set of deployed copies.