UPDATED DISTRIBUTION ARCHITECTURE AND METHOD OF DISTRIBUTING SOFTWARE Russian patent published in 2010 - IPC G06F15/16 

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: update service root node and a set of update service nodes are organised in a hierarchical order such that the update service root node is the update service parent node with respect to one update service daughter node, a first update service daughter node from a set of update service daughter nodes is the parent node with respect to a second update service daughter node, the update service root node includes a first administration application program interface API and a first administration user interface, which receive from the administrator a first set of rules for distributing software updates to certain update service daughter nodes from the set. The update service node contains an update web service, client update module, a decedent update module, a reports module, an identification/authorisation module, an administration application program interface API, an administration user interface, an update content storage and an update information storage.

EFFECT: broader architecture for distributing software updates and high efficiency of monitoring distribution of updates.

29 cl, 9 dwg