PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16144265
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["710", "313000"]

Abstract:
A method and a computer readable medium comprising instructions for upgrading a firmware of a peripheral device connected to a host device via a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) bus from the operating system (OS) of the host device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method and computer readable medium instructions includes halting host device access to the peripheral device after detecting the peripheral device has completed a shutdown sequence, and resetting the peripheral device after a predetermined time period after completion of the shutdown sequence. The method and computer readable medium instructions further includes initializing the firmware stored in a persistent storage location of the peripheral device, and re-establishing a connection between the peripheral device and the host device. In one embodiment, the predetermined time period is greater than a time it takes for the host device to detect the peripheral device has completed the shutdown sequence. In one embodiment, the peripheral device is a Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe)-compliant data storage device.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of upgrading a firmware of a peripheral device connected to a host device via a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) bus from the operating system (OS) of the host device, the method comprising:\n halting host device access to the peripheral device after detecting the peripheral device has completed a shutdown sequence comprising performing processes necessary for the peripheral device to shut down; resetting the peripheral device after a predetermined time period of completion of the shutdown sequence; initializing the firmware stored in a persistent storage location of the peripheral device; and re-establishing a connection between the peripheral device and the host device through a link negotiation setting a link width and link speed of the PCIe bus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43243
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14866087', '13997512', '15280455', '15238470', '15750528']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6347069956806494
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5093700795430991
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6221733040668943
- Mean Citation Score: 178.024434
- Max Citation Score: 322.5778
- Similarity Product: 314.2337040096403

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

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