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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20050108703 | Proactive policy-driven service provisioning framework A computer network that includes a plurality of compute elements, a repository that includes compute element characteristics for each of the plurality of host computers, and software having at least one operating parameter, where the software is automatically installed ... | 05/19/2005 |
| 20050102668 | Method and device for representing the dependencies of components of a technical installation A device and method thereof for analyzing in a reliable and particularly precise manner all components of a technical installation. Underlying dependencies of the components (K1 to Kn) of the technical installation (1), particularly a power plant, are stor... | 05/12/2005 |
| 20050102669 | Software installation file verification media and methods for medical equipment File verification is provided for medical imaging systems, other medical systems or other systems. The verification is performed on an install media prior to installation. For example, data for an upgrade package is transmitted over a computer network. The data is then ... | 05/12/2005 |
| 20050102667 | Generating summaries for software component installation Methods, systems, data structures and computer program products are provided for deploying software components, including deploying components in an enterprise environment. Installation of components is initiated and a level of detail to be reported is selected. As inst... | 05/12/2005 |
| 20050102666 | Pre-deployment component hosting environment analyzer Methods, systems, data structures and computer program products for deploying software components, including deploying components in an enterprise environment. Components previously installed and components to be installed are identified. Conflicts between such componen... | 05/12/2005 |
| 20050102665 | Automatic parallel non-dependent component deployment The methods, systems, data structures and computer program products for deploying software components are provided, including deploying components in an enterprise environment. Dependency relationships among components to be deployed are determined. Those components whi... | 05/12/2005 |
| 20050102664 | Installing software in a system A method and computer system according to the disclosed invention allows the pre-installation of a software application without a license key. The computer system installs a software application and provides a prompt for a license key. The license key is stored in a reg... | 05/12/2005 |
| 20050102663 | Apparatus setting updating system Installation data of an apparatus (1) is stored by installation data storage means (4) and apparatus unique data is stored by apparatus unique data storage means (5). Confirmation modification request generating means (6) generates a confirma... | 05/12/2005 |
| 20050102662 | PCTEL-13800U automated updating system for wireless networks A system and method are disclosed that allow information to be transmitted to a device in order to update or upgrade the device. Thus, a client can be updated from a central location in real-time after the client has been deployed. The system and method disclosed in acc... | 05/12/2005 |
| 20050102661 | Method for automatic updating of software A method for automatically updating software which is used for updating software which is running on a system, by using new software modules, these software modules first being tested, and application modules then being derived from these software modules. The actual ne... | 05/12/2005 |
| 20050102660 | Initialization and update of software and/or firmware in electronic devices A system and method to effectively and efficiently update a version of firmware resident in a device memory is provided. A method of identifying one or more versions of firmware is provided by way of initializing a device memory with a known pattern. In addition, the am... | 05/12/2005 |
| 20050102441 | System with application program and method for automatically installing the application program A peripheral apparatus includes an application program. The peripheral apparatus couples to the host system and automatically install the application program into the host system. Thus, the peripheral apparatus of the present invention does not need extra floppy disks o... | 05/12/2005 |
| 20050097543 | Electronic apparatus and embedded software updating method An electronic apparatus executes communication with a serer via a network. The device includes a informing unit configured to inform the server of software configuration information indicative of a current configuration of embedded software that is installed in the elec... | 05/05/2005 |
| 20050097540 | Program updating method and terminal device In the present invention, in updating a program stored in rewritable nonvolatile memory such as Flash ROM, a program portion in a block in the nonvolatile memory is expanded in RAM which includes a portion needing an update of the program stored, and only the portion ne... | 05/05/2005 |
| 20050091651 | Program-update priotization according to program-usage tracking An update website prioritizes updates available for an application (e.g., a word-processing program or a fault-tolerance program) running on a user computer system. Prioritization is in part a function of usage data gathered on the user computer system by a usage-tracki... | 04/28/2005 |
| 20050091635 | Use of attribution to describe management information A system that facilitates management of an application or service of a system using code attribution. Code of an application or service to be installed on the system is attributed with management information. The system includes a management subsystem that uses the attr... | 04/28/2005 |
| 20050081197 | Method for installing a software module in a device A method and arrangement for installing a software module in a device are provided, an operating system and a hardware-independent software environment such as a Java environment may be operated on the device and new software modules for the operating system may be inst... | 04/14/2005 |
| 20050081198 | System and method for limiting software installation on different computers and associated computer-readable storage media A method for limiting the number of times that software can be installed on different computers is provided. The method is suitable for PC with disk ROMs. With the USB flash drive connected to PC, the method includes the steps of: (a) the CD in the Disk ROM starting the... | 04/14/2005 |
| 20050071839 | Communication terminal and communication network for partially updating software, software update method, and software creation device and method therefor Disclosed herein are a communication terminal and communication network for partially updating software, a software update method, and a software creation device and method therefor. The software is divided into a plurality of areas each having a predetermined size, and... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050071837 | Automated control of a licensed internal code update on a storage controller A system, method and article of manufacture are provided to perform an automated concurrent licensed internal code (LIC) update and an automated nonconcurrent LIC update on a storage controller. The automated concurrent LIC update is performed on a storage controller by... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050066019 | Computer application and methods for autonomic upgrade maintenance of computer hardware, operating systems and application software The present invention provides methods and a computer-readable program for providing autonomic, event driven upgrade maintenance of one or more software modules residing on a computer system. In a preferred embodiment, a method begins by detecting a predefined triggerin... | 03/24/2005 |
| 20050066325 | Software install program product, installation method, and software install system A software install program product causes a computer to execute: acquiring version information of an operating system used with the computer; acquiring compatible OS information of the software program stored in the recording medium; determining whether or not the opera... | 03/24/2005 |
| 20050060699 | Method and system for updating software A method and a system for updating software stored in a flash memory, which enables a user to resume a suspended updating process even when log data stored in a journaling area is lost. According to the present invention, log data indicating the results of implementatio... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050055688 | Integrated rapid install system for generic software images A method for automatically installing a software image onto an information handling system. The method includes reading an order for an information handling system, reading an image manifest, installing an image specified by the image manifest onto the information handi... | 03/10/2005 |
| 20050055692 | Method of building dynamic installation packages using a declarative authoring tool A method (300) of building a package for installing a software application on a data processing system with a distributed architecture is proposed. The installation package is built using an authoring tool based on a declarative model. In the proposed method, a d... | 03/10/2005 |
| 20050055691 | Preboot execution environment extension identifier A PXE boot extension is requested from a PXE boot extension server from a computer. A BIOS identifier corresponding to a desired PXE boot extension is stored on the computer, and is provided to a PXE boot extension server. The PXE boot extension server determines from t... | 03/10/2005 |
| 20050055690 | System and method for communication between computers via an integrated hardware device Apparatus and method for performing a computer setup. A communications router and a nonvolatile memory are operatively situated between two computers. The memory stores a driver for the communications router and a software load to be installed on at least one of the com... | 03/10/2005 |
| 20050055689 | Software management for software defined radio in a distributed network A method for installing software to software-defined radio equipment. The method includes the step of transferring software to one or more software-defined radio devices from a remotely located software server. The software server can be a computer operatively connected... | 03/10/2005 |
| 20050055686 | Method and system for servicing software A system and method for improved software servicing by installation of an updated version is provided. Using branch versioning techniques that support multi-branch development and release versioning techniques that support multi-version development, an update package ma... | 03/10/2005 |
| 20050050539 | Automatic computer program customization based on a user information store Software programs, such as an operating system or other application programs, are automatically customized to a specific user(s) based on data corresponding to the specific user(s) that is maintained in a user information store. In one embodiment, the information store ... | 03/03/2005 |
| 20050050538 | Software distribution system and software receiving terminal apparatus A terminal apparatus has a reception unit for receiving a data group or a program group distributed from a satellite or a ground distribution system, and an update sequence management unit. The update sequence management unit searches data or a program of the terminal a... | 03/03/2005 |
| 20050044542 | Method and device for optimized code checker The verification process is applied to a programme (4) when it is being integrated into an electronic device (2), the programme being organized on the basis of types linked by parentage relationships, each type being identified by a respective code. The in... | 02/24/2005 |
| 20050044544 | Methods and systems for obtaining computer software via a network When creating a distribution file for distributing software over a network, instructions for automatically invoking instructions for installing software can be placed in the software distribution file. If an installation program, the software, and the instructions are p... | 02/24/2005 |
| 20050044543 | Method for determining software load process The present invention is a method for determining the software load process. In an exemplary aspect of the present invention, a method for determining computer system software load process may start with loading computer system software on a computer. Then a marker file... | 02/24/2005 |
| 20050044529 | Task library of task data for a plurality of components on a computer system A task library comprising task data for a plurality of components installed on a computer system is provided. The task library includes task data for a plurality of components installed on a computer system. The task links, that reference task data elements, are generat... | 02/24/2005 |
| 20050039193 | Method and apparatus for generating device driver and user interface screen A method and apparatus generating a device driver and a user interface screen for the device driver. The method of generating a device driver having a plurality of functional components includes generating a file for each functional component of a device driver and a us... | 02/17/2005 |
| 20050039178 | System and method for downloading update packages into a mobile handset in a carrier network Aspects of the present invention may be seen in a system and method for downloading update packages into an electronic device communicatively coupled to a carrier network. The system may facilitate the update of firmware/software in the electronic device. Different prot... | 02/17/2005 |
| 20050034117 | Information processing apparatus and an information processing system An information processing apparatus includes an accepting unit for accepting inputs of identification information of a developed software program and parameter values used by the software program at a time of setup and an operation processing unit for generating identif... | 02/10/2005 |
| 20050034119 | Rental program management system In response to a distribution request from the terminal device 2 of the user, the distribution center 1 downloads and activates an install program in the terminal device 2 of the user. When the installation is completed, the install program issues a... | 02/10/2005 |
| 20050034118 | Systems and methods for transferring information to a computer memory Systems and methods for creating a software image for subsequent installation on a target computer system. These systems and methods may include hardware and steps for creating an image of software on a source computer; transferring the image to a recipient computer; in... | 02/10/2005 |
