Patent ID: 7823147
Filing Date: 2010-10-26
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: (a) a package computer having a plurality of patch fingerprints; (b) an update server in communication with the package computer; (c) a discovery agent configured to separately interact with both the first XML metadata query and the second XML metadata query to produce first target computer information relating to the first target computer; wherein the system is configured to: (A) send the first XML metadata query and the second XML metadata query of the first and second patch fingerprints from the update server to the discovery agent to gather the first target computer information; (B) determine, at the update server based on the first target computer information, whether the specific software update is both applicable to and absent from the first target computer; wherein the system is configured to, based on the determination (B), download the specific software update to one of (i) the update server and (ii) the first target computer.