Patent ID: 9699108
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: managing by a device manager deployment of one or more resources from a repository; for each of one or more portions of a network, for each of a plurality of client devices in the one or more portions of the network, determining whether one or more of the plurality of client devices meets one or more criteria; storing the one or more of the plurality of client devices that meet the one or more criteria as one or more candidate devices in a list; selecting at least one of the one or more candidate devices from the list as a master device for the one or more portions of the network; converting the master device to a designated repository, wherein the designated repository is associated with a designated portion of the one or more portions of the network; receiving a notification from the designated repository after completion of the conversion of the master device to the designated repository; assigning up to a threshold of the plurality of client devices that are not the master device to the designated repository; downloading at least one of the one or more resources to the designated repository; notifying the assigned client devices that the at least one of the one or more resources is accessible; receiving a connection notification for the assigned client devices that successfully connected to the designated repository; imaging at least one of the assigned client devices with the at least one of the one or more resources; receiving status information associated with imaging of the at least one of the one or more resources at the at least one assigned client devices; selecting by the device manager at least one of the one or more assigned client devices based on the status information as a new master device, wherein the status information indicates if imaging was successful; and instructing by the device manager at least one of the one or more assigned client devices that has yet to be successfully imaged as indicated by the status information to obtain the at least one of the one or more resources from the new master device.