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Method of scheduling hosts for software updates in a distributed computer network

  • US 20040243996A1
  • Filed: 05/29/2003
  • Published: 12/02/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of scheduling hosts to timeslots to enable a given control action, wherein given hosts are associated with one or more potentially overlapping constraint sets and/or have given precedent relationships, comprising:

  • maintaining a given state of a set of hosts;

    generating a first rank order of the hosts by assigning to each host a cumulative value of all constraint sets in which that host is contained;

    altering the first rank order to accommodate precedent relationships, if any, to generate a second rank order of the hosts; and

    executing a given heuristic against the second rank order.

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