发明名称 Controllable deployment of software updates
摘要 The risk of inadvertent introduction of software bugs to a large number of users during a software update is minimized by controlling updates using a uniform mechanism of sending updates to seed users. A value-generating module generates a value for a computer, the value falling within a population range of values. A sampling range-generating module generates a sampling range of values as a proper subset of the population range, the probability of the random value falling within the sampling range being predetermined. An eligibility determination module determines whether the computer is eligible to receive a software update, the computer being determined eligible when the random value for the computer falls within the sampling range, and an update module provides the software update to the computer based on the eligibility determination. In some embodiments, a problem review module determines whether the update has caused a problem for computers receiving the update.
申请公布号 US7334005(B2) 申请公布日期 2008.02.19
申请号 US20050106194 申请日期 2005.04.13
申请人 SYMANTEC CORPORATION 发明人 SOBEL WILLIAM E.
分类号 G06F9/44;G06F9/445 主分类号 G06F9/44
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