PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15875223
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["340", "003430"]

Abstract:
A sensor controller for a sensor module includes at least one interface to obtain sensor information from the sensor module and to communicate with a sensor signal receiver. The sensor controller includes a control module to control the at least one interface. The control module is configured to obtain the sensor information from the sensor module; generate a sensor signal based on the sensor information; and transmit the sensor signal. The control module is further configured to detect a fault state of the sensor module; transmit a fault indicator if the fault state indicates a failure of at least a part of the sensor module; and receive a control signal from the sensor signal receiver based on the fault indicator. The control signal includes at least one fault handling instruction. The control module is configured to execute the at least one fault handling instruction.

Claim (Index 8):
The sensor controller according to  claim 1 , wherein the control module is configured to enter a diagnostic mode based on the transmitting of the fault indicator, and wherein the control module is configured to execute the at least one fault handling instruction while in the diagnostic mode, and/or\n wherein the control module is configured to transmit the fault indicator instead of the sensor signal if the fault state indicates a failure of at least a part of the sensor module.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.42222
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12860370', '12860376', '12860418', '15041805', '12860362']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6898108832407424
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4836451354330919
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6691943084599773
- Mean Citation Score: 159.118094
- Max Citation Score: 164.51148999999995
- Similarity Product: 119.23931881662126

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

Dataset: test