Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'Method For Configuring And/Or Updating Software Of Target Components Of A Safety-Critical System By Means Of A Central Authorization Unit, And Safety-Critical System Having An Authorization Unit' Filed by Hitachi Rail Gts Deutschland Gmbh

MUMBAI, India, June 20 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517047475 A) filed by Hitachi Rail Gts Deutschland Gmbh, Ditzingen, Germany, on May 16, for 'method for configuring and/or updating software of target components of a safety-critical system by means of a central authorization unit, and safety-critical system having an authorization unit.'

Inventor(s) include Richter, Robert.

The application for the patent was published on June 20, under issue no. 25/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The invention relates to a method for updating software of target components of a safety-critical system (SYS), wherein the safety-critical system (SYS) comprises a maintenance management component (MDM), a central authorization unit (A) and a permanently authorizable target component (TC-A, TC-B, TC-C), and wherein the starting system configuration comprises a first combination of target components and the target system configuration comprises a second combination of target components, the method comprising the following method steps: a) an external maintenance instance (M) requests an update of the system configuration; b) the authorization unit (A) switches from the "inactive" state to the "update" state; c) the permanently authorizable target components (TC-A, TC-B, TC-C) are informed of the update to be carried out; d) the authorization unit (A) performs a system integrity pre-check and triggers a first state change and a version check of the permanently authorizable target components (TC-A, TC-B, TC-C); e) the permanently authorizable target components (TC-A, TC-B, TC-C) perform a version check and, if necessary, a version update and report the result to the authorization unit (A); f) the authorization unit (A) perform a system integrity check and triggers a second state change of the permanently authorizable target components (TC-A, TC-B, TC-C) if the system integrity check was successful; g) the authorization unit (A) switches from the "update" state to the "inactive" state."

The patent application was internationally filed on Dec. 08, 2023, under International application No.PCT/EP2023/084872.

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