PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15747058
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["717", "168000"]

Abstract:
For simplifying and/or improving the updating of firmware of a control device, in particular of a safety controller, the invention provides a method and a system for updating firmware, in which a device-specific authorization check for performing a firmware update is performed by the manufacturer, and in case of a successful authorization check a device-specific activation code for performing the firmware update is provided, and for this purpose an enabling device is provided on the manufacturer's side and an updating device connectable to a control device on the user's side. The improvement is that the safe and secure firmware update proceeds under the control and long-term archiving of the manufacturer. The invention furthermore relates to a digital storage medium having instructions stored thereon for use when performing the method according to the invention.

Claim (Index 8):
The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein, once the firmware update has been successfully performed, the updating device transmits an acknowledgment message to the central enabling device, wherein in response to the received acknowledgment message the central enabling device logs successful completion of the firmware update, in particular by storing a log entry containing the unique identification information item in the product life cycle management database.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07246
- Patent Class: 717.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10993303', '13441198', '14820005', '09983637', '15483208']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3903897912223841
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.496104089093393
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.400961221009485
- Mean Citation Score: 159.52757400000004
- Max Citation Score: 170.92488
- Similarity Product: 117.12692335706234

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test