Patent 7634549 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on December, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Methods and systems are provided for automating updates to and maintenance of live Internet sites. An Internet-based tool is provided including a series of Internet-based web pages for communicating proposed updates to a live website and for approving, testing and implementing proposed updates. The automated website updating tool allows for passing a proposed modification or update through a quality control process and ultimately updating the live website.