Patent 7584467 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on September, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
In one embodiment, software updates are applied to one or more client computers. The one or more client computers are assigned a level of service governing aspects of the application of the updates. The scheduling of the application of the software updates is done according to the level of service. The application of the software update is then performed according to the schedule.