DISTRIBUTED UPDATE SERVICE

• US 20150012914A1
• Filed: 09/22/2014
• Published: 01/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Klein, Matthew D., Li, Gang, Guo, Jiaqi
• Granted Patent: US 9,201,644 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/170
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44 Arrangements for executing specific programs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45533 Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors

Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed that facilitate the updating of target host computing devices based on versioning information. A set of host computing devices are provisioned with a local computing device management component. Each local computing device management component periodically transmits a request to a host computing device management component to determine whether version information associated with the respective host computing device corresponds to version filter information. Based on a processing of the version filter information with the current version information of the host computing device, the host computing device management component can facilitate the implementation of updates to the requesting host computing device.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for managing computing device, the method comprising:

under control of one or more processors configured with specific executable instructions,

obtaining version update information corresponding to a goal state for a set of computing devices;

determining a distribution of modifications to an operating environment or software applications executing on each computing device of the set of computing devices to implement the goal state;

modifying version filter information to implement the determined distribution of modifications; and

causing an update to at least one computing device of the set of computing devices in accordance with the modified version filter information.