PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16295768
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["717", "171000"]

Abstract:
The disclosure provides for systems and methods for performing upgrades in virtual environments. Some implementations are directed to using an upgrade service to provide pre-upgrade component detection and validation on host(s). A software package may be submitted to an existing software upgrade procedure of a host. The software package may include an upgrade executable that, when launched, provides a new software service, including initializing one or more new public-facing APIs to provide pre-upgrade host component detection and validation. Some implementations are directed to coordinating the upgrade of a first host using an upgrade service launched on another networked machine or second host. While running an upgrade service, the first host may make a request to the second host to coordinate the upgrade of components of the first host while the first host or a VM of the first host running the upgrade service is shut down.

Claim (Index 27):
A method comprising:\n receiving, from a virtual controller of a first host and by an upgrade orchestrator executing on a second host in a cluster with the first host, a request to continue an upgrade of the first host, the request indicating components of the first host to be upgraded; and after receiving the request and after the virtual controller of the first host is powered off:\n adjusting, by the upgrade orchestrator, virtual machine parameters of the virtual controller, \n placing, by the upgrade orchestrator, a hypervisor of the first host in a maintenance mode, \n upgrading, by the upgrade orchestrator and in accordance with the request, the hypervisor while in maintenance mode, BIOS of the first host, or firmware of the first host, and \n causing, by the upgrade orchestrator and after the upgrading, a reboot of the first host and the hypervisor to exit maintenance mode, wherein the virtual controller powers on in conjunction with the hypervisor exiting maintenance mode and validates the upgrading by the upgrade orchestrator.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14865
- Patent Class: 717.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15955678', '14983562', '14925354', '15649440', '15868699']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3955651374617501
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6135398801486096
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.417362611730436
- Mean Citation Score: 281.5456200000001
- Max Citation Score: 571.6645
- Similarity Product: 450.5364614671768

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

Dataset: test