PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16152617
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["340", "662000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure describes methods and apparatus for detecting a pattern warning signal from a hazard detector in the presence of a second pattern warning signal from a second hazard detector. In one embodiment, hazard detector monitoring device converts a pattern warning signal and a second pattern warning signal into a composite electronic signal, each of the first and second pattern warning signals comprising an on-time period followed by an off-time period. Next, the composite electronic signal is converted into a digital signal and then an on-time duration of the digital signal is determined as a time that the digital signal exceeded a first voltage threshold. Finally, an alarm signal is transmitted to a receiver when the pattern warning signal has been determined to be present, based on the on-time duration.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for detecting when a hazardous condition is present inside a structure, comprising:\n a transducer for converting a first pattern warning signal received from a first hazard detector and a second pattern warning signal received from a second hazard detector into a composite electronic signal, each of the first and second pattern warning signals comprising an on-time period followed by an off-time period; an analog-to-digital converter for converting the composite electronic signal into a digital signal; a memory for storing processor-executable instructions and one or more thresholds; a transmitter for transmitting an alarm signal; and a processor coupled to the analog-to-digital converter, the memory and the transmitter for executing the processor-executable instructions that causes the apparatus to:\n determine that the hazardous condition is present based on the first pattern warning signal and the second pattern warning signal; and \n transmit an alarm signal to a receiver when the hazardous condition has been determined to be present, based on the on-time duration.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12121
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15226809', '15814517', '15380437', '14793421', '14173445']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7228462931902719
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5134972618421397
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7019113900554588
- Mean Citation Score: 274.888498
- Max Citation Score: 314.96265
- Similarity Product: 302.40035081555845

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

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