Patents by Inventor Donald Alfred GARRETT

Donald Alfred GARRETT 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).

  • Peer-to-peer software updates
    Patent number: 9420065
    Abstract: Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for providing a software update. A system is configured to receive, from an update server, an update patch for a computer program installed on a memory of a first computing machine, execute the update patch on a first computing machine to update the computer program, receive a request for the updated computer program from a second computing machine, and transmit the updated computer program installed on the memory of the first computing machine to the second computing machine without transmitting the update patch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Brian George Mayo, Donald Alfred Garrett
  • PEER-TO-PEER SOFTWARE UPDATES
    Publication number: 20140207844
    Abstract: Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for providing a software update. A system is configured to receive, from an update server, an update patch for a computer program installed on a memory of a first computing machine, execute the update patch on a first computing machine to update the computer program, receive a request for the updated computer program from a second computing machine, and transmit the updated computer program installed on the memory of the first computing machine to the second computing machine without transmitting the update patch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Brian George MAYO, Donald Alfred GARRETT