US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 8 for "Selective deployment of software based on versioning schema" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,631, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Selective deployment of software based on versioning schema" was invented by Mark Edward Eastman (Holly Springs, N.C.), Donald Mark Allen (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Jeffrey C. Clark (Cary, N.C.), Terence James Boldt (Oakville, Canada), John William Hayduk (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Mark William Emeis (Monument, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and computer program product are provided for deploying software using a versioning schema. An n-dimensional string is obtained that describes a version of a component, wherein a value...