333 results about "Software deployment" patented technology

A radially expandable endoprosthesis device and method of deployment with an at least two stage deployment capability. More particularly, the device pertains to an annularly expandable heart valve prosthesis which is adapted for the long-term treatment of valvular diseases in infants, children and adolescents. The device is constituted of a combination of superelastic alloys and bioresorabable materials which facilitates the devices to undergo multistage deployments at predetermined intervals while emplaced in the body vessels or lumens of patients.

The present invention provides a system and method for deploying software onto multiple heterogeneous systems at the same time. A generic software deployment manager may deploy software by communicating with client software deployment services residing on the systems that are receiving the software deployment. The software deployment manager can operate independent of the software and the operating system on which software is being deployed by communicating with the client software deployment service. To execute a software deployment, the software deployment manager may send software deployment messages containing generic commands that signify operations to be performed to deploy software. The client software deployment service provides an interface between the software deployment manager and the recipient system by translating these generic commands to commands that are compatible with the local operating system. The software deployment manager may transmit software deployment messages simultaneously to each of the systems within a system group or an environment so that software can be efficiently deployed without incompatibilities in the network. The software deployment manager may deploy software in Linux, Windows, Unix, Macatosh, Java, or any other operating system and may deploy any software.

A computerized method, program product, computer system, and a service to verify successful installation of computer software across a broadband bus, such as the Internet, onto an endpoint machine. First, the software module to be installed may be evaluated to determine what operating parameters of the endpoint machine may be affected by the software deployment, installation, and execution. Acceptable thresholds or ranges of these operating parameters may be included with the list of potentially affected parameters, which may be distributed with the software module or may be sent as a separate script. Metrics of these or other operating parameters are collected at various stages during the software installation, e.g., before deployment, after deployment but before installation, after installation, during execution, etc. How and when these operating parameters are monitored can be programmable. If and when the operating parameters extend beyond the acceptable ranges or thresholds, a message that the software was not successfully installed may be generated. Other actions may occur, such as rolling the endpoint machine back to a prior configuration.

A novel method is disclosed for capturing an installed state of a conventional application and converting the captured state into a virtual application. The novel method starts with a bare machine in a known state, preferably soon after the OS was installed. Installation scripts are used to install one or more software applications along with required components and dependencies. Other artifacts can be added and configured such as files, trees, directories, entries, data, values, among others. These also may include updates to various system databases, such as the Windows registry in which certain metadata is stored. The installed applications are tested and verified to work as desired. Undesired artifacts can be deleted manually or removed by the OS. The state of the virtual machine with the installed applications is captured. The installed applications can be tested on the frozen virtual machine. If the user determines that the installed applications are working properly, a virtual machine image is prepared and then written out. The resulting output is a new populated virtual application container that encapsulates the applications installed and configured by the user. If the user determines that one or more installed applications do not work properly during testing, then the frozen virtual machine can be unfrozen and any deficiencies corrected. The virtual machine image is stored as a launch document and a set of shards. The virtual machine image represents the state of the virtual machine along with the installed applications at the time the preparation virtual machine was frozen.

The invention provides a software deployment system and a software deployment method based on workflow in a cloud computing environment. The software deployment system comprises a user interface layer, a system logic layer and a cloud resource layer, wherein the user interface layer is used for a user to describe a software deployment plan, define a dependence relation between software, inquiry the node state of a target machine, describe software attribute and monitor a software deployment process; the system logic layer is used for analyzing a soft deployment plan file submitted by the user and deploying a software packet on a remote cloud resource node according to the deployment plan of the user; and the cloud resource layer is used for deploying software. The system and the method have the advantages that automatic software deployment under a Windows operating system and a Linux operating system is supported; comprehensive and accurate verification of the software deployment is provided; on the basis of a workflow technology, automatic deployment dependent on the software is supported; multi-machine concurrent transmission and software packet deployment are supported; the deployment efficiency is improved; and automatic software inverse deployment is supported.

A utility to determine identity of an electronic device electronically, by running a device attribute collection application that collects key data points of the electronic devices and a device identification application that uses these key data points to link the electronic device to a specific owner or entity. Data points of the device may change over time for reasons such as reconfiguration, repair or normal daily use. The device identification application intelligently and consistently tracks changes in key data points associated with the device, even if the data points change over its lifecycle. The device may be identified remotely with the device identification application (e.g., in the event of theft or loss of the device) based on the collected data points. The device identification application may be deployed in conjunction with services that may include asset tracking, asset recovery, data delete, software deployment, etc.

A method is disclosed, in a supervisory process control system environment, for installing supervisory process control software from a central software deployment server. The software distribution method includes the step of first specifying a software component for a supervisory process control application to be deployed to a remote location and a destination for the software component based upon a distributed application configuration. A software component is conditionally transmitted to the remote supervisory control computer, after the determining step, if the software component for the supervisory process control application is not present at the remote location.

Apparatus for facilitating deployment of a an implantable medical device includes a control member (20) having at least one tine member (35-37). A proximal region (35b-37b) of at least one of the tine members (35-37) is configured to engage an associated portion of a stent (60). In use, the control member (20) comprises a contracted delivery configuration in which the proximal region of the at least one of the tine member (35-37) is radially contracted, to radially constrain the associated portion of the stent (60). The control member (20) also comprises an expanded configuration in which the proximal region of the at least one of the tine member (35-37) expands radially outward relative to the central longitudinal axis to allow the stent to engage a body passage. The proximal region of the at least one tine member (35-37) is selectively movable an incremental amount between the contracted and expanded configurations, in radially inward and outward directions, to facilitate positioning of the stent (60) within the body passage.

A method, system and computer program product is provided for deploying software in a data processing system. A topology pattern is selected in which the selected topology pattern describes an arrangement of software and hardware devices. Augments to the selected topology pattern are received to form an augmented topology pattern after a selection of a selected topology pattern from a plurality of topology patterns. The augmented topology pattern is transformed into a set of deployable scripts, wherein the set of deployable scripts is used for the software deployment.

A system and a method of rating software bugs using a bug scoring and tracking system is presented. The system and method may use automated scoring of the bugs to determine the impact of the bug. The system and method may connect to one or more databases to determine the extent of the deployment of the software, the impact of the bug, and / or the history of the bug. Scoring is used to prioritize the bugs and the scoring is extensible and adjustable allowing easy addition of new parameters and allowing the system to be modified for different bug types, software, or customers.

A method for multi-scenario software deployment includes creating a software deployment plan that includes at least one task granulated into independently executable sub-tasks; and saving the software deployment plan on a computer readable medium. A computer program product for multi-scenario software deployment includes computer usable program code configured as a software deployment program which runs on a controlling computing device; the software deployment program being configured to: query a user for deployment parameters corresponding to software to be deployed to a target computing device(s); and create a plan for deploying software to a target computing device(s) which can be performed automatically and includes tasks that can be independently performed by separate people. The tasks deploying the software to the target computing device(s) are then performed according to the deployment parameters.

Example systems and methods to maintain process control systems are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves identifying at least one of an update or an upgrade applicable to a configuration of nodes of a process control system. Software is provided for download to the process control system. The software represents an update and / or upgrade. Metadata for the software indicating applicability of the software to one or more nodes of the process control system is also provided for download. Automated installation of the software to one or more nodes of the process control system is facilitated based on the metadata from a workstation in communication with the one or more nodes of the process control system.

The invention discloses a software deployment method, which establishes and supplies an installation parameter file for each computer to be deployed according to software deployment task, and guides the computer to perform network installation of software by using the installation parameter file of the each computer to be deployed. The invention also provides a corresponding software deployment system, a software deployment server and a software deployment user server. Because the invention adopts the proposal that the method intensively generates the installation parameter file according to the software deployment task and guides computer equipment to automatically perform the installation of the software by using the installation parameter file, the method can conveniently carry out software deployment for batch computer equipment; and because the installation parameter file corresponds to the each computer to be deployed, the method can flexibly adjust software type, parameter configuration and the like of the each computer to be deployed, and is convenient for customization of the software.

A system and method of deploying software provides for comparing a current software topology of a deployment site to a software deployment topology of an application, wherein the software deployment topology is required to deploy the application. One or more mismatches between the current software topology and the software deployment topology may be identified.

Systems, methods, and computer-readable memory media for performing various computer configuration tasks are disclosed. One such configuration task is dissimilar system restore (DSR). Another such task is software deployment. In various embodiments, these configuration tasks operate on a target computer system using a utility operating system to perform detection of certain target system devices, determination of critical device classes on the source computer system, and updating of target computer configuration settings. Other tasks may be performed upon a computer system such as a backup server. These tasks include locating device drivers for the target operating systems and the installing utility operating system, as well as creating device driver packages that are usable to install device drivers for a plurality of devices.

The invention provides a software deploying and maintaining method based on an intelligent cluster. The method includes the steps that a testing platform of the intelligent cluster compiles applications and generates an executable program package, the FTP address of the application executable program package is sent to an FTP server, a user has access to the testing platform through a browser on a computer of the user and sends a deploying instruction, the testing platform receives the instruction and then sends out a request message, and applies for testing synergic servers, the user logs into the testing synergic servers, the executable program package and a latest configuration file are acquired, configuration items are injected into the executable program package, and testing scripts are requested to be executed. Unified management and monitoring of the testing servers of a large-scale cloud platform are enhanced, the problem finding timeliness and processing efficiency are improved, and the spontaneous recovery capacity is enhanced after problems are generated.

An apparatus and method for managing and transporting virtual disks over a network to networked stations is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a data storage subsystem and a data processor connected thereto via a network. The data processor includes a virtual disk interface controller to interface with the storage subsystem in handling the input and output for the storage subsystem. The storage subsystem manages a pool of storage blocks in the form of a plurality of virtual disk images and transports the virtual disk images over the network to the virtual disk interface controller. A virtual disk image is emulated as a virtual disk by the virtual disk interface controller and presented to the data processor. The architecture for management and delivery of disk images and the data structure for maintenance of disk images facilitate software deployment and installation onto the networked diskless computers enable highly efficient system administration on the whole network to maximize the network availability.

A method, system and computer program product is provided for deploying software in a data processing system. A topology pattern is selected in which the selected topology pattern describes an arrangement of software and hardware devices. Augments to the selected topology pattern are received to form an augmented topology pattern after a selection of a selected topology pattern from a plurality of topology patterns. The augmented topology pattern is transformed into a set of deployable scripts, wherein the set of deployable scripts is used for the software deployment.

A system and method for self-policed, authenticated, offline / online, viral marketing and distribution of content such as software, text, and multimedia with effective copyright and license enforcement and secure selling. The system is based on key and cryptography hiding techniques, using source-to-source transformation for efficient, holistic steganography that systematically inflates and hides critical code by: computation interleaving; flattening procedure calls and obfuscating stack by de-stacking arguments; obfuscating memory management; and encoding scalars as pointers to managed structures that may be distributed and migrated all over the heap using garbage collection. Multimedia / text content may be partitioned and sold with expiry dates for protection and updates for long life. Authenticity of software installed on a machine may be monitored and ensured, supporting even authentic software deployment in an unknown environment. The system can be implemented with commonplace networking or browser software, commonplace hardware and content provision over a secure website (https standard).

Various techniques for software license inventory and asset management are disclosed. A fingerprint may be generated and associated with various copies of software applications installed on a software licensee's computer systems. Upon generation, each fingerprint may be stored in a license information database system along with relevant license information for that copy of the software application. A software inventory tool may then be used to collect fingerprints on installed copies of software applications and provide these fingerprints to the license information database system to obtain the corresponding license information. The output of the software inventory tool may be used by a licensee to comply with software license agreements and / or efficiently allocate information technology resources. Methods and systems that provide and process secured, dynamic and persistent tagging of software deployments and usage are also disclosed.

A data migration throttle that supports the incremental and reversible migration of web site customization data from a client-side data store to a server-side data store. Initially, each user of the web site stores customization data, such as the user's zip code, in a cookies file together with a globally unique identifier (GUID) which identifies the user. In order to migrate data to a server side store, the throttle is set to a value. Each time a user contacts the web server a hash of the user's GUID is compared with the throttle value, and the user's data is migrated to the server if the hash value is less than the throttle value. The throttle may be lowered, thereby causing some users to revert to client-side storage of customization data.

The invention provides a method for deploying software on a wide-screen display and a device. The method includes steps of monitoring mouse clicking or touch screen clicking events in real time; entering a dynamic split screen state when a current focal point window is clicked via a mouse or a touch screen, a clicked state is kept for a period of time longer than preset time; automatically initiating an area in the current focal point window and setting the area in the current focal point window as a virtual screen area in the dynamic split screen state; modifying the size of the virtual screen area according to preset standards, recording coordinates and the size of the virtual screen area after the virtual screen area is modified, and limiting a display interface when the quantity of software in a virtual screen is maximum so that the display interface cannot exceed a recorded coordinate range of the virtual screen; and exiting from the dynamic split screen state and completing split screen operation. By the aid of the method and the device, application programs can be quickly deployed into display programs of inner screens of the virtual screen according to needs of a user, troublesome operation of software deployment is effectively avoided, time of the user is saved, and the method and the device are high in operational efficiency and applicability and are flexible and convenient.

A method for multi-scenario software deployment includes creating a software deployment plan that includes at least one task granulated into independently executable sub-tasks; and saving the software deployment plan on a computer readable medium. A computer program product for multi-scenario software deployment includes computer usable program code configured as a software deployment program which runs on a controlling computing device; the software deployment program being configured to: query a user for deployment parameters corresponding to software to be deployed to a target computing device(s); and create a plan for deploying software to a target computing device(s) which can be performed automatically and includes tasks that can be independently performed by separate people. The tasks deploying the software to the target computing device(s) are then performed according to the deployment parameters.

The present invention is directed to a time-based licensing scheme for software deployment. According to an aspect of the present invention, lime-based software can be disseminated through various channels, for example, a network, CD's, floppy disks, etc., but before the time-based software can be launched, a user needs to supply account information as well as an amount of time requested for using the time-based software.In another aspect, the time-based software communicates with an authentication server preferably over a network to ascertain if the user is authorized and if the amount of time requested is approved. If the user is approved, the time-based software will be activated for the amount of time requested. If there is no time credit left in the user account, the user will not be approved and a rejection message will be sent to the user. Advantageously, the present invention allows for no restriction on where, when, or how many copies of the time-based software are used, as long as the user maintains sufficient time credit in the authentication server.

Systems, methods, and computer-readable memory media for performing various computer configuration tasks are disclosed. One such configuration task is dissimilar system restore (DSR). Another such task is software deployment. In various embodiments, these configuration tasks operate on a target computer system using a utility operating system to perform detection of certain target system devices, determination of critical device classes on the source computer system, and updating of target computer configuration settings. Other tasks may be performed upon a computer system such as a backup server. These tasks include locating device drivers for the target operating systems and the installing utility operating system, as well as creating device driver packages that are usable to install device drivers for a plurality of devices.

The invention provides customizable software deployment, a customizable software installation method and a customizable software system. The customizable software installation method comprises the following steps: deploying a basic function module package in the middle of a server to generate all basic function modules in a packing mode, wherein the basic function module package is deployed at a first position; according to a need, extracting a customized function module, packing to generate a customized function module package, and deploying the customized function module package at a second position; according to a customized version, and generating corresponding installation information, wherein the installation information comprises the first position of the basic function module package, and the second position of the customized function module package of the corresponding customized version; calling the installation information, extracting the basic function module package, and extracting the corresponding customized function module package to install. Under the premise that resources are saved to the greatest extend, the customizable software deployment, the customizable software installation method and the customizable software system can meet user group adaptability of customizable software, especially can meet the user group adaptability of the customizable software with a great quantity of software customized versions and improve the customizable software deployment and convenience of installation.