Patents by Inventor Duane E. Wandless

Duane E. Wandless 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).

  • Method, system, apparatus and program product for distribution and instantiation of software upgrades
    Patent number: 7080371
    Abstract: Distributing and instantiating software version upgrades in a distributed computing environment. This includes defining the required versions of software as the contents of a software version upgrade kit. This is written, e.g., as a table of contents or a list, to a database to generate software version upgrade kit tables. These tables are used to generate software version upgrade kits. The kits are then used as a source to download copies of the upgrade kits to clients to be upgraded. This enables upgrading the software on the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: Siebel Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Gilberto Arnaiz, Robert A. Brodersen, Prashant Chatterjee, Peter Siam Sy Lim, III, Duane E. Wandless