ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,208, issued on March 25, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).
"Pausing automatic software updates of virtual machines" was invented by Jonathan Francis Caine (Abingdon, Great Britain), Neil Robert Tyndale Watkiss (Oxford, Great Britain) and Timothy Rayment (Abingdon, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Adapting automatic software update behavior for virtual desktop infrastructure deployed endpoints includes detecting a request for services of a threat management facility for an enterprise network that originates from a compute instance embodied as a virtual machine instantiated from a versioned software te...