US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 9 for "Deployment sequencing for dependent updates" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,677, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Deployment sequencing for dependent updates" was invented by Dmitry Valentinovich Kholodkov (Seattle), Rahul Nigam (Bothell, Wash.) and Nidhi Verma (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for deploying dependent updates include mechanisms for requiring that dependency information be provided for each update so that dependent updates may be identified. Update dependencies are tracked so that dependent updates are not deployed until parent updates have been completed. Deployment sequencing is implemented on top of e...