Patents by Inventor Christopher Blizzard

Christopher Blizzard has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Sharing software certification and process metadata
    Patent number: 8726267
    Abstract: A management service is provided for maintaining software of one or more users, or an enterprise. On behalf of users or enterprises, the management service collects supplemental metadata about the certification and updates of software as well as processes related to the development and testing of the software. Supplemental metadata relates to any information that qualitatively describes the software outside of its basic operations. Each piece of supplemental metadata may be individually authenticated to ensure its accuracy. In addition, pieces of supplemental metadata can be combined with other supplemental metadata. Accordingly, a user or system administrator may then use various policies to manage software and determine which updates to install based on the supplemental metadata in addition to the typical intrinsic metadata, such as dependency information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Ding Li, Christopher Blizzard
  • System and method for sharing software certification and process metadata
    Publication number: 20070240152
    Abstract: A management service is provided for maintaining software of one or more users, or an enterprise. On behalf of users or enterprises, the management service collects supplemental metadata about the certification and updates of software as well as processes related to the development and testing of the software. Supplemental metadata relates to any information that qualitatively describes the software outside of its basic operations. Each piece of supplemental metadata may be individually authenticated to ensure its accuracy. In addition, pieces of supplemental metadata can be combined with other supplemental metadata. Accordingly, a user or system administrator may then use various policies to manage software and determine which updates to install based on the supplemental metadata in addition to the typical intrinsic metadata, such as dependency information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Inventors: Richard Li, Christopher Blizzard