Patent ID: 11947944
Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 12:
13. A centralized network element for use in reporting on a software update performed on a network composed of at least a plurality wireless devices; the centralized network element comprising:
storage storing code, wherein prior to the update the network is installed with operating software on one or more of the plurality of wireless devices that enables one or more existing functions across the plurality of wireless devices, and the update being applied to the operating software on at least one of said one or more wireless devices and affecting operation of two or more of the plurality of wireless devices; and
one or more processors arranged to run the code, the code being configured so as when thus run to perform operations of:
i) detecting one or more properties of the two or more wireless devices in the network,
ii) reading the update to determine one or more deleted functions of said two or more devices which the updated is programmed to implement, and
iii) receiving an electronic update report reporting whether or not the software update was successfully installed in memory of said at least one wireless device, wherein at least one function of said two or more devices has been deleted;
for each software update reported to be successfully installed in iii), comparing the deleted functions determined in ii) against the properties detected in i) in order to establish which of the existing functions are now disabled within the network due to the update;
determining one or more potential solutions to enable the one or more disabled functions;
creating a customized report indicating said enabled disabled functions and indicating said one or more determined potential solutions; and
outputting the customized report to be output to a user via a user device of the user.