Patent ID: 7080372
Filing Date: 2006-07-18
Classification: G06F,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An administration server for determining whether to provide a software program update to a processor group, the processor group including a plurality of client processors, said administration server comprising: configuration receiving means for receiving and storing a set of system configuration attributes from the processor group, the system configuration attributes indicating whether a copy of a client software program may be applicable to the processor group; configuration transmitting means for transmitting the set of system configuration attributes to a selection server; update receiving means for receiving an update recognizer program from the selection server, the update recognizer program being associated with the client software program and executed at the processor group to determine if an update is applied; and update recognizer transmitting means for transmitting the update recognizer program to the processor group, wherein the processor group executes the update recognizer program to issue a notification indicating whether a software program update is applicable to the copy of the client software program in the processor group.