US Patent Issued to OPEN TEXT on March 18 for "Systems and methods for remote management of appliances" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,959, issued on March 18, was assigned to OPEN TEXT INC. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for remote management of appliances" was invented by Karl Redgate (Concord, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes systems and methods for remote management of appliances. The appliance may be configured to periodically check in a predetermined online location for the presence of a trigger file identifying one or more appliances directed to contact a management server for maintenance. If the file is present at the predetermined location and the file includes the identifier of the appliance, the appliance ...