PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15769202
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["700", "284000"]

Abstract:
An irrigation controller and valves incorporating an irrigation controller, which have user allocatable identification numbers, is disclosed. The controller and valves are programmed when to operate according to their identification number, and the program is uploaded and stored in each controller or valve as the case may be, together with clock data. The controller and valves then perform time keeping and operate according to the stored program. The controller and valves are intended to be battery operated, obviating the need to install wiring to connect the valves back to a central controller. This allows simplified installation and programming, and provides improved flexibility in programming of irrigation.

Claim (Index 16):
A flow control valve controller for an irrigation system, said flow control valve controller having at least one output to connect to an electrically operable valve operable between an off condition in which water under pressure would be prevented from flowing and an on condition in which water under pressure would be able to flow, operation of each said output being controlled by a processor interfaced with each said output by a switching circuit, said processor receiving address data being a user allocated identification number corresponding to a watering zone/station number allocated by the user to each said output, to set the watering zone/station number for each said output, and receiving by download and storing relative time data relating to the time of day, and receiving by download and storing operation timing data relating to said user allocated identification number allocated to said each said output, where said flow control valve controller continually updates stored relative time data based on internal clock data in order to track the time of day, and where said processor operates each said output in accordance with the stored operation timing data relating to said user allocated identification number as allocated by the user to each said output, wherein the operation timing data is pre-programmed in an external control unit, and uploaded from the external control unit to said flow control valve controller, and wherein said processor receives and stores operation timing data relating to a plurality of different said identification numbers allocated to a plurality of said outputs, where said processor operates said output in accordance with the stored operation timing data relating to said identification number allocated to said output.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.77273
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14882253', '14811741', '12713104', '14030067', '13294060']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4374723327497349
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4654256975768171
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4402676692324431
- Mean Citation Score: 178.54251200000004
- Max Citation Score: 191.21928
- Similarity Product: 153.67092801854608

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

Dataset: test