ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,122, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Software package update handling" was invented by Ting Dai (Elmsford, N.Y.), Muhammed Fatih Bulut (West Greenwich, R.I.), Shripad Nadgowda (Elsmford, N.Y.) and Daby Mousse Sow (Croton on Hudson, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and computer program product for software package update handling are provided. The method installs an initial set of software packages in a virtual environment. A package dependency graph is generated representing independent software packages and dependent software packages of the initial set o...