PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16304808
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["717", "173000"]

Abstract:
One aspect of the present disclosure relates to a relay device communicating with a plurality of control devices that belong to on-vehicle networks. This relay device is provided with: a storage unit configured to store therein a plurality of update programs for simultaneous update required for the plurality of control devices, and topologies of the on-vehicle networks; an in-vehicle communication unit configured to transmit the plurality of update programs to the corresponding control devices, respectively; and a control unit configured to control the in-vehicle communication unit such that, as for control devices that belong to a plurality of on-vehicle networks that are individually connected to the relay device and are independent from each other, the plurality of update programs corresponding to the control devices are transmitted in parallel with each other.

Claim (Index 10):
A program update method executed by a relay device communicating with a plurality of control devices that belong to on-vehicle networks, the method comprising the steps of:\n storing a plurality of update programs and topologies of the on-vehicle networks, the plurality of update programs being to be respectively applied to the plurality of control devices in mutually overlapping timing; and transmitting the plurality of update programs to the corresponding control devices, respectively, wherein in the step of transmitting the plurality of update programs, the plurality of update programs corresponding to the control devices are parallelly transmitted to control devices that belong to a plurality of on-vehicle networks that are individually connected to the relay device and are independent from each other, wherein one of the on-vehicle networks includes a main network directly connected to the relay device, and a local network that branches from the main network with a control device included in the main network being a branch node, and, the method further comprises the step of determining a transmission speed in the main network in accordance with whether or not the branch node has a buffer function for relaying transmission of the update program from the main network to the local network when transmission capability of the main network is higher than transmission capability of the local network.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.45614
- Patent Class: 717.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16342121', '14227198', '14646097', '16345552', '15743777']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3267748033067909
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4918963480460707
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3432869577807189
- Mean Citation Score: 165.82470800000004
- Max Citation Score: 172.4047
- Similarity Product: 128.35441219745277

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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