PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15861132
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["717", "170000"]

Abstract:
An embodiment method for retiring a dynamically updatable function includes receiving, by a collector-thread, a registration of the function, wherein the registration indicates to the collector-thread addresses of memory locations for counters that count a number of calls currently being made to a previous version of the function by a plurality of execution threads; reading, by the collector-thread, values of the counters; and when the values of all the counters are zero, deleting, by the collector-thread, the function from a storage medium on a device previously executing the previous version of the function.

Claim (Index 23):
The method of  claim 21 , wherein declarations of global variables in the at least one function in the software application with a keyword \u201cextern\u201d are removed from the at least one function in the software application and placed in a file with the keyword \u201cextern.\u201d

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.96226
- Patent Class: 717.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12396560', '14626754', '15584785', '13130524', '12544704']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3359265877273558
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5230910991767056
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3546430388722907
- Mean Citation Score: 148.77716800000005
- Max Citation Score: 155.97409
- Similarity Product: 84.84725998883782

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

Dataset: test