US 11,809,854 B2
Software updating method, software updating system and software updating program
Kazuo Suko, Osaka (JP); Yasuyuki Aisaka, Osaka (JP); Tsutomu Iura, Osaka (JP); Mieharu Tokuda, Osaka (JP); and Kazuteru Matsui, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP)
Appl. No. 17/997,160
Filed by DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP)
PCT Filed Apr. 26, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/016631
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 26, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/221012, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 4, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-080709 (JP), filed on Apr. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0131475 A1, Apr. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 8/65 (2018.01)
CPC G06F 8/65 (2013.01) 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A software updating method for a plurality of equipment constituting an equipment system, the software updating method comprising:
acquiring information indicating an operation state of at least respective equipment to be updated among the plurality of equipment;
acquiring information indicating a reception state of updated software for the respective equipment;
identifying, based on the information indicating the operation state and the information indicating the reception state, equipment that is not in operation among the respective equipment,
determining whether to perform switching to the updated software by the respective equipment, except for the equipment being identified as not in operation; and
instructing switching to the updated software based on a result of the determining,
wherein the determining determines that the switching to the updated software by the respective equipment is not to be performed in a case where the respective equipment is identified as being in operation among the respective equipment, but is in an incomplete reception state of updated software.