SOFTWARE UNINSTALLATION SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT

• US 20140189675A1
• Filed: 12/27/2013
• Published: 07/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/1996
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Babu Katchapalayam, Balaji Narasimhan, Bing Liu, Gopal Ramanujam, Jonathan Tran, Kenneth Hwang, Ravi Kannan, William Cheng
• Original Assignee: Babu Katchapalayam, Balaji Narasimhan, Bing Liu, Gopal Ramanujam, Jonathan Tran, Kenneth Hwang, Ravi Kannan, William Cheng
• Inventors: Cheng, William, Hwang, Kenneth, Kannan, Ravi, Katchapalayam, Babu, Liu, Bing, Narasimhan, Balaji, Ramanujam, Gopal, Tran, Jonathan
• Granted Patent: US 9,292,273 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/170
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/62 Uninstallation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A computer program product is embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium. The computer program product comprises computer code to display a plurality of first indicia presented in a list, where each first indicia indicates a software product, and computer code to display a second indicia associated with a highlighted one of the first indicia. The second indicia comprises information about the software product indicated by the highlighted first indicia. The computer program product additionally comprises computer code to display a third indicia associated with the highlighted first indicia and indicate the availability of a software update for the software product indicated by the highlighted first indicia, and computer code to display a fourth indicia associated with the highlighted first indicia. The fourth indicia facilitates the retrieval of the software update.

Claims

1. At least one computer-readable media having instructions stored thereon that, when executed on a client computer, cause the client computer to:

display a list of one or more available software product updates for one or more software products installed on the client computer;

display a version for at least one of the available software product updates; and

display an icon for installing an available software product update selected for installation at the client computer.

2. The at least one computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein the one or more available software product updates are individually selectable in the list.

3. The at least one computer-readable media of claim 1, the instructions further comprising instructions that, when executed on the client computer, cause the client computer to display information about the available software product update selected for installation upon selection of the available software product update selected for installation.

4. The at least one computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein the icon is a button.

5. A method comprising:

displaying a list of one or more available software product updates for one or more software products installed on a client computer;

displaying a version for at least one of the available software product updates; and

displaying an icon for installing an available software product update selected for installation on the client computer.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the one or more software product updates are individually selectable in the list.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising displaying information about the available software product update selected for installation upon selection of the available software product update selected for installation.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the icon is a button.

9. A client computer comprising:

one or more processors;

at least one computer-readable media having instructions stored thereon that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the client computer to;

display a list of one or more available software product updates for one or more software products installed on the client computer;

display a version for at least one of the available software product updates; and

display an icon for installing an available software product update selected for installation at the client computer.

10. The client computer of claim 9, wherein the one or more available software product updates are individually selectable in the list.

11. The client computer of claim 10, the instructions further comprising instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the client computer to display information about the available software product update selected for installation upon selection of the available software product update selected for installation.

12. The client computer of claim 9, wherein the icon is a button.

13. A client computer comprising:

means for displaying a list of one or more available software product updates for one or more software products installed on the client computer;

means for displaying a version for at least one of the available software product updates; and

means for displaying an icon for installing an available software product update selected for installation on the client computer.

14. The client computer of claim 13, wherein the one or more available software product updates are individually selectable in the list.

15. The client computer of claim 14, further comprising means for displaying information about the available software product update selected for installation upon selection of the available software product update selected for installation.

16. The client computer of claim 13, wherein the icon is a button.