Patent Document ID: 7945524
Application ID: 12178553
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A system for facilitating maintenance of feeders in an electricity distribution network, the system comprising: values of a plurality of feeder attributes related to past performance history; a particular dataset for training a model configured to determine the relative susceptibilities to failure of the feeders based on the values of the plurality of feeder attributes, wherein the particular dataset for training comprises data on feeders from a failure history database and other feeders that are selected based on their situational association with a specific failed feeder and/or selected based on a similarity measure used in statistical causal inference; and a machine learning engine configured to train the model and to apply the trained model to the values of a plurality of feeder attributes so as to generate rankings of the feeders indicative of their relative susceptibilities to failure; and a decision support application configured to provide the rankings of the feeders available to operators and engineers so as to facilitate maintenance of the feeders.