PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15861195
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["726", "028000"]

Abstract:
A computer system for providing software over a network includes: a computer system for providing software over a network is provided. The system includes: a control unit configured to reside at a site, the control unit including a control unit identification (ID) that uniquely identifies the control unit to the network; a copy of the software, the software including sets of features; a license generator configured to create a features activation file containing the control unit ID and identifying at least one set of features to be activated by the control unit; a computer configured to download the features activation file to the control unit; and, the control unit configured for activating one of the sets of features according to the features activation file. A method and a computer program product are disclosed.

Claim (Index 9):
A method for licensing software for a remote site of a plurality of sites, the method comprising:\n authorizing at least one first software feature for the remote site of the plurality of sites through an administrator; obtaining a control unit ID for the remote site of the plurality of sites; correlating the at least one first software feature with the control unit ID in a downloadable features activation file; obtaining another control unit ID for another remote site of the plurality of sites; correlating the at least one first software feature with the another control unit ID in the downloadable features activation file; removing at least one second software feature previously authorized for the remote site of the plurality of sites from the downloadable features activation file; downloading the features activation file at the remote site of the plurality of sites; downloading the at least one first software feature from a software database over a network; activating the at least one first software feature; and deactivating the at least one second software feature, wherein the features activation file comprises a listing of control unit IDs information correlated to licensed features.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.49153
- Patent Class: 726.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14617141', '13493587', '11051316', '10231999', '10232906']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2935914718345641
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.512596651035553
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.315491989754663
- Mean Citation Score: 180.592338
- Max Citation Score: 325.62878
- Similarity Product: 293.3142904617644

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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