CA-5 Software Patent Analysis

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Luke Duncan Prof. Henderson Ethical Issues in Computing 03/26/2024 CA-5 Software Patent Analysis Title: Updating control software on a network-connected HVAC controller Number: US10761833B2 Date: 09/01/2020 Inventors: Alastair R. Gourlay, David A. Bourne, Grant M. Erickson, Richard J. Schultz, David Sloo, Jonathan P. Solnit Current Assignee: Google LLC Number of Claims: 20 This patent is for a new way of updating HVAC software remotely by disabling the device, applying the update to a secondary partition, rebooting the system from the secondary partition, and transferring the update to the primary partition. The software patent is specific to the HVAC field, so I feel like very little of the software industry will be affected by this patent. If it patented the updating process in general, it would have a much larger impact, but as it exists now, the impact seems minimal. I don’t know enough about HVAC to say if the new update method is a significant invention. It feels like a fairly straightforward way to apply a software update to an air conditioning system though, so I would say it is not significant to deserve a patent.
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