Patent application number | Description | Published |
20140032915 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VALIDATING THE INTEGRITY OF INSTALLER FILES PRIOR TO INSTALLATION - A method and apparatus for validating the integrity of computer software installer files prior to installation of computer software comprising: generating at least one signature file for at least one corresponding installer file, the at least one signature file comprising a file name, a file size and a checksum, wherein the checksum is calculated for the corresponding installer file; and packaging the at least one signature file with the corresponding installer file, wherein the checksum in the signature file is used to validate the integrity of the installer file prior to installation of the installer file. | 01-30-2014 |
20140033321 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SECURELY EXECUTING MULTIPLE ACTIONS USING LESS THAN A CORRESPONDING MULTIPLE OF PRIVILEGE ELEVATION PROMPTS - A method and apparatus for securely executing a plurality of actions requiring elevated privilege using less than a corresponding plurality of prompts for privilege elevation, and in some embodiments, only a single prompt for privilege elevation, comprising: receiving a request to perform a first action requiring an elevated privilege; acquiring the elevated privilege to perform the first action; executing the first action, wherein the first action is executed based on the elevated privilege; receiving a request to perform a second action requiring an elevated privilege; and executing the second action using the elevated privilege acquired for the first action. | 01-30-2014 |
20150317145 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NOTIFYING AN ENTERPRISE ADMINISTRATOR OF NEW PRODUCTS AND UPDATES - A computer implemented method and apparatus for notifying an enterprise administrator of new products and updates. The method comprises displaying one or more software packages on a first device, where each of the one or more software packages is installed on one or more end user devices, each end user device being remote from the first device, and each software package comprising one or more products; indicating each product in the one or more software packages that has on or more new products or one or more new updates available based on information from a software provider of the one or more products; receiving a selection of the one or more software packages for updating; downloading each of the one or more products in each of the one or more selected software package to the first device; and bundling the one or more downloaded products to create a software package for installation on the one or more end user devices. | 11-05-2015 |
20150378714 | Providing Context-Specific Software Updates to Client Applications - In some embodiments, an update server receives an update request for an instance of a client application executed at a computing system. The update request includes context data describing an attribute of the computing system. If an update for the client application modifies a feature of the instance of client application associated with the described attribute, the update server provides the update to the computing system. The update server also receives an update request for an additional instance of the client application executed at another computing system. The additional update request includes context data describing an attribute of the additional computing system. If an available update modifies a feature of the additional instance of the client application that is associated with the described attribute, the update server provides the update to the additional computing system. If not, the update server notifies the additional computing system that no updates are available. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379582 | Recommending Shared Electronic Content via Online Service - Systems and methods are disclosed for recommending shared electronic content via an online service. In some embodiments, a server can identify a first subscriber and a second subscriber to an online service that have access via the online service to an application for using or editing electronic content. The server can also determine a correspondence between usages of the application by the first and second subscribers via the online service with respect to at least one attribute of the application. The server can also identify an electronic content item generated with the application by the first subscriber. The server can also provide, via the online service, a recommendation for the electronic content item to the second subscriber based on the correspondence between the first usage and the second usage with respect to one or more attributes of the application. | 12-31-2015 |
20160034435 | MANAGING PORTABLE DOCUMENT-BASED WORKSPACES - In various embodiments, methods and systems for managing portable document-based workspaces is provided. An indication to save a document-based workspace for a document is received on a computing device. The computing device can include a software application for editing the document and a client application for communicating with a cloud service component that is configured to store the document and the document-based workspace. Based on receiving the indication to save the document-based workspace, transient data associated with the document is identified. The transient data can be identified based on a data structure that defines document-specific data that are preserved as part of the document-based workspace. The document-based workspace is saved and communicated to the cloud service component such that the transient data associated with the document is accessible when the document is accessed from a second computing device that sends an indication to access the document and the document-based workspace. | 02-04-2016 |