I am not sure what you mean by "family" patch. Could you please elaborate?
For Solaris 10, the Update Connection software provides the means to run an analysis for a system to show latest available patches and also to apply them. It provides the smpatch CLI, the updatemanager GUI and an optional web portal for remotely managing patches.
For further information please see;
http://www.sun.com/service/sunupdate/hosted/
http://updates.sun.com/