Managed execution and expiration of agent commands
AssigneeWebroot Inc.
InventorsJoseph Jaroch, Melvyn Morris
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus for managing the expiration and execution of commands sent from a remote system having administration functions to an agent residing on a computer system are disclosed. An exemplary method includes receiving, at an agent, one or more commands, storing the one or more received commands, retrieving the one or more stored commands, and determining whether the one or more retrieved commands can be executed by comparing at least one time parameter associated with the agent to at least one time parameter associated with the one or more retrieved commands.
Claims20
A method of evaluating one or more commands to be executed, the method comprising:
- receiving, at an agent, one or more commands;
- storing the one or more received commands;
- retrieving the one or more stored commands;
- and
- determining whether the one or more retrieved commands can be executed by comparing at least one time parameter associated with the agent to at least one time parameter associated with the one or more retrieved commands.
An apparatus for evaluating one or more commands to be executed, the apparatus comprising:
- a computer-based system having an agent installed thereon, the agent arranged to receive one or more commands from a remote system, store the one or more commands received from the remote system, and execute the one or more commands received from the remote system;
- the agent further arranged to determine whether the one or more commands received from the remote system can be executed by comparing at least one time parameter associated with the agent to at least one time parameter associated with the one or more commands received from the remote system.
A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium, encoded with processor readable instructions to perform a method for evaluating one or more commands for execution by an agent, the method comprising:
- receiving, at an agent, one or more commands;
- storing the one or more commands;
- retrieving the one or more stored commands;
- and
- determining whether the one or more retrieved commands can be executed by comparing at least one time parameter associated with the agent to at least one time parameter associated with the one or more retrieved commands.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.