PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16039080
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["307", "082000"]

Abstract:
A system and method for establishing communication between a controller and a plurality of inverters comprises determining a response time window length and broadcasting a response request to the array of inverters that includes the response time window length. Each inverter, in response to receiving the response requests, transmits a response to the controller at a randomly determined response time within the response time window. In response to receiving an acknowledgement from the controller, the responding inverter may ignore subsequent response requests. The controller may adjust the response time window and broadcasts the new response time window until no inverter response is received for a pre-determined number of response time windows.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for establishing communication between a controller and a plurality of inverters, the inverters configured to convert direct current (DC) power from an alternative energy source to AC power, the method comprising:\n receiving with an inverter a response request transmitted by the controller, the response request including a length of a response time window; determining a random response time for the inverter based on the length of the response time window; transmitting a response to the controller at the response time, the response including an identification of the inverter; and in response to receiving an acknowledgement from the controller in response to the transmitted response, ignoring subsequent response requests from the controller.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07018
- Patent Class: 307.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14872886', '12902046', '13538723', '15004686', '15426712']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7932064501628424
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5243103876151068
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7663168439080689
- Mean Citation Score: 232.95321600000003
- Max Citation Score: 334.99414
- Similarity Product: 289.62501230840445

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