PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15892898
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["707", "659000"]

Abstract:
When a system configuration is deployed, the recipe used, the results of the deployment, and/or the results of any qualification tests performed may be anchored to a distributed ledger. Periodically, the system configuration may be audited by verifying the recipe against the anchored version. The results of such audits may also be anchored to the distributed ledger. Thus, what is anchored to the distributed ledger represents a cryptographically verifiable history of the configuration of the system. Consequently, the system configuration at any time can be proven by comparing historical configuration information maintained by the owner of the system to the distributed ledger.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for proving a computer system is configured consistently with an authorized configuration, the method comprising:\n retrieving most recent configuration information for the computer system from a configuration management data store, the most recent configuration information purporting to describe a configuration of the computer system as a result of deployment of a configuration recipe to the computer system at a point of time in the past, the most recent configuration information including deployment information and verification information, wherein the deployment information includes the configuration recipe and the verification information relates to testing the configuration of the computer system; generating a set of reduced representations from the most recent configuration information, the set of reduced representation including a first reduced representation and a second reduced representation, the first reduced representation generated from the deployment information, and the second reduced representation generated from the verification information; identifying a set of event confirmations with the set of reduced representations, each event confirmation having been generated to confirm submission of one of a set of previously generated reduced representations to be anchored to a distributed ledger, the previously generated reduced representations having been previously generated from configuration information for the computer during deployment of the configuration recipe; confirming that the most recent configuration information is consistent with the authorized configuration by verifying, for each event confirmation, that the corresponding one of the previously generated reduced representations was successfully anchored to the distributed ledger; and auditing the configuration of the computer system by comparing the current configuration of the computer system to the most recent configuration information, wherein a match between the current configuration and the most recent configuration information confirms that the computer is configured consistently with the authorized configuration.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21569
- Patent Class: 707.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15880476', '15045148', '15278936', '15279761', '10911876']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1829522302424011
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4666702903574101
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.211324036253902
- Mean Citation Score: 130.436236
- Max Citation Score: 149.93639
- Similarity Product: 108.0628957315457

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

Dataset: test