Software uninstallation system, method and computer program product

• US 9,292,273 B2
• Filed: 12/27/2013
• Issued: 03/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: McAfee, Inc. (McAfee, LLC)
• Original Assignee: McAfee, Inc. (McAfee, LLC)
• Inventors: Cheng, William, Hwang, Kenneth, Kannan, Ravi, Katchapalayam, Babu, Liu, Bing, Narasimhan, Balaji, Ramanujam, Gopal, Tran, Jonathan
• Primary Examiner(s): Kang, Insun
• Application Number:
  US14/142,601
• Publication Number:
  US 20140189675A1
• Time in Patent Office: 816 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 non-transitory 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;

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

display information describing changes to be made by the available software product update upon selection of the available software product update,

wherein the list, version, icon, and information describing changes are displayed prior to installing the available software update.

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, wherein the icon is a button.

4. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein the information describing changes made by the available software product update comprises a link to a description of the changes made by the available software product update.

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;

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

displaying information describing changes to be made by the available software product update upon selection of the available software product update,

wherein the list, version, icon, and information describing changes are displayed prior to installing the available software update.

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 5, wherein the icon is a button.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the information describing changes made by the available software product update comprises a link to a description of the changes made by the available software product update.

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;

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

display information describing changes to be made by the available software product update upon selection of the available software product update,

wherein the list, version, icon, and information describing changes are displayed prior to installing the available software update.

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 9, wherein the icon is a button.

12. The client computer of claim 9, wherein the information describing changes made by the available software product update comprises a link to a description of the changes made by the available software product update.

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;

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

means for displaying information describing changes to be made by the available software product update upon selection of the available software product update,

wherein the list, version, icon, and information describing changes are displayed prior to installing the available software update.

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 13, wherein the icon is a button.

16. The client computer of claim 13, wherein the information describing changes made by the available software product update comprises a link to a description of the changes made by the available software product update.