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 1):
A method of updating a software configuration of an appliance, the method comprising:\n receiving, by one or more computing devices, a software update package comprising a plurality of candidate payloads applicable to a plurality of appliance configurations, each of the plurality of candidate payloads comprising one or more update images each comprising identifying characteristics; receiving, by the one or more computing devices, for one or more control boards present in the appliance, identifying characteristics associated with one or more software images of the one or more control boards present in the appliance; and determining, by the one or more computing devices, an appliance payload from the plurality of candidate payloads based at least in part on the identifying characteristics associated with the one or more software images of the one or more control boards present in the appliance and the identifying characteristics of the update images of the candidate payloads of the software update package.

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): 0.3797045854369376
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4913052158236712
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.390864648475611
- Mean Citation Score: 180.935542
- Max Citation Score: 249.46855
- Similarity Product: 229.611781180656

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

Dataset: test