PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15914018
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["717", "169000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for intelligently updating a software configuration of an appliance are provided. In particular, the systems and methods include features for performing software updates based on the unique identity or fingerprint of one or more control boards present in the appliance. Further, methods for tracking appliances with unknown software configurations are also provided.

Claim (Index 18):
A method for updating a software configuration of an appliance having one or more control boards, the method comprising:\n receiving a software update package comprising a plurality of candidate payloads each comprising one or more update images each comprised of metadata, the metadata of each of the one or more update images comprising identifying characteristics; querying the appliance to discover metadata of one or more software images associated with the one or more control boards present in the appliance, the metadata of each of the one or more software images comprising identifying characteristics; receiving the identifying characteristics of the one or more software images; comparing the identifying characteristics of the one or more update images with the identifying characteristics of the one or more software images; and determining if one of the plurality of candidate payloads of the software update package are a match for the appliance based at least in part on the comparison between the identifying characteristics of the one or more update images and the identifying characteristics of the one or more software images.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 42.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.39535
- Patent Class: 717.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15151553', '11571449', '12256513', '11571456', '11953595']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3786679565544336
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4962800624384261
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3904291671428328
- Mean Citation Score: 180.935542
- Max Citation Score: 249.46855
- Similarity Product: 216.5631395758897

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