METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING SOFTWARE UPDATES ON A NETWORK CONNECTED DEVICE

A method at a computing device acting as a switchboard between an electronic device and a device to be updated, the method including receiving, at the computing device, a connection request from the electronic device, the connection request including an identifier for the device to be updated; recei...

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Hauptverfasser: QADERI, Hashim Mohammad, HUTCHENS, Scott, INGLIS, David Alan, WILLIS, Edward Snow
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:A method at a computing device acting as a switchboard between an electronic device and a device to be updated, the method including receiving, at the computing device, a connection request from the electronic device, the connection request including an identifier for the device to be updated; receiving, at the computing device, a connection request from the device to be updated; associating, at the computing device, the connection request from the electronic device and the connection request from the device to be updated; forwarding, at the computing device, a message from the device to be updated to the electronic device that update conditions have been met; forwarding, at the computing device, a message from the electronic device to the device to be updated to start an update process; and forwarding, at the computing device, update status information from the device to be updated to the electronic device.