Citrix Systems, Inc.
Systems and methods of just-in-time proactive notification of a product release containing a software fix

Abstract:

Techniques for providing notifications to users of software product releases that contain software fixes for errors or exceptional events experienced during execution of application programs. The techniques can include proactively generating a signature that corresponds to an error event experienced during execution of an application program, providing the signature to hosted services for determining whether a subsequent release of the application program exists containing a fix to correct the error event, and, having determined that a subsequent release of the application program exists, receiving a notification pertaining to the subsequent release, including information for downloading the subsequent release to a user computer. In this way, notifications of software product releases that address error events experienced during execution of application programs can be provided to users in a just-in-time (JIT) fashion for subsequent downloading of the software product releases to their respective computers.