US Patent Issued to Red Hat on March 17 for "Predictive model for application update decisions" (Italian, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,951, issued on March 17, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Predictive model for application update decisions" was invented by Paolo Antinori (Milan), Alessio Soldano (Milan) and Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of providing one or more predictive models to enhance decision-making capabilities regarding software updates in computing network systems. The method includes receiving a request for information indicating whether to upgrade an application executing on a node. The method includes providing a historical impact profile of the node to a predictive model trained to...