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 12):
A system for updating a software configuration of an appliance having one or more control boards, the system comprising:\n a programming entity in operative communication with the appliance, the programming entity configured to:\n receive a software update package, the software update package comprising a plurality of candidate payloads each comprised of one or more update images, each of the one or more update images comprising identifying characteristics; \n query the appliance to discover identifying characteristics associated with one or more software images of the one or more control boards present in the appliance; \n receive the identifying characteristics associated with the one or more software images of the one or more control boards present in the appliance; \n compile the identifying characteristics associated with the one or more software images into unique image identifiers, wherein each of the one or more software images has an associated unique image identifier; \n compare the unique image identifiers with the identifying characteristics of the one or more update images of the plurality of candidate payloads; and \n determine an appliance payload based at least in part on the comparison between the unique image identifiers and the identifying characteristics of the plurality of 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): 0.3785912025092107
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4966486255612071
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3903969448144103
- Mean Citation Score: 180.935542
- Max Citation Score: 249.46855
- Similarity Product: 215.5965487486184

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