PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16106549
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["709", "224000"]

Abstract:
A method executed by a concentrator connected between a plurality of remote units and a management server, the method including: (i) receiving and storing properties data associated with a remote unit including a microengine and a meter for measuring usage of a resource at a customer's premises, the properties data representing a profile of the remote unit; (ii) receiving message data representing a request associated with the remote unit from the management server; (iii) generating response data representing a response to the request based on the message data and the stored properties data; and (iv) sending the response data to one of the remote unit and the management server, as determined by the request based on the message data.

Claim (Index 31):
A communications system for controlling and interrogating a network of distributed remote units, the communications system including:\n one or more processors and a memory; a network management server for requesting and serving data associated with the remote units; concentrators for communicating with the network management server and communicating with respective remote units using respective selectable communications protocols based on properties data maintained at the concentrators, the properties data being from a remote location and representing state and communications parameters associated with each remote unit, wherein the concentrators are being executed by processors; and remote units for serving properties data and message data to a concentrator and receiving data, including application files and service level data, wherein the remote units are being executed by processors, wherein the properties data of the remote units represents profiles of the remote units and devices installed with or communicating with the remote units, and the profiles each include communications parameters and device parameters, the communications parameters representing the communications protocols and associated equipment the respective remote unit supports, wherein a concentrator is configured to communicate with a remote unit using an available communications link determined in accordance with the communications protocols and associated equipment the respective remote unit supports and established among multiple different communications links supported by at least some of the selectable communications protocols the respective remote unit supports by selecting and using the respective communications parameters of the properties data for the determined communication link, wherein the respective communications parameters are for a new interface added to the profile and are transmitted to the respective remote unit when interfaces of the determined communications link do not match.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30508
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13260834', '14342270', '12453716', '10564749', '12865813']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2702215650213171
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5844494785730633
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3016443563764918
- Mean Citation Score: 214.544966
- Max Citation Score: 466.77173
- Similarity Product: 454.21493363397

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

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