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 13):
The system as claimed in  claim 12 , wherein\n the control device is adapted to store the unique identification information item contained in the activation code received from the updating device; the updating device is adapted to transmit an acknowledgment message to the central enabling device when the firmware updating has been performed successfully; and the central enabling device is adapted, in response to the received acknowledgment message, to log 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): 0.3915062511201583
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4916243401112204
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4015180600192645
- Mean Citation Score: 159.52757400000004
- Max Citation Score: 170.92488
- Similarity Product: 122.03139667116166

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

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