PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15750404
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["700", "019000"]

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and devices for monitoring and controlling tools are provided. In general, the methods, systems, and devices can electronically receive data regarding one or more tools being used to perform a process, e.g., a scientific process, can analyze the received data, and can electronically provide the received and/or analyzed data to one or more users via one or more external devices. Electronically providing the data to the user(s) can include providing the data over a network. In at least some embodiments, a control box is provided that can be configured to electronically couple to one or more external tools. The control box can be configured to communicate over a network with at least one external device. The control box, the tool(s), and the at least one external device can define a network of physical objects so as to be an application of the Internet of Things.

Claim (Index 2):
The device of  claim 1 , wherein the at least one external tool includes a plurality of external tools, and the processor is configured to switch between controlling different ones of the external tools, the controlling including the processor providing instructions to the one of the external tools that cause the one of the external tools to perform a function.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 34.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14959934', '14733671', '15299616', '13662093', '15646808']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4281895812041661
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4739426601168884
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4327648890954384
- Mean Citation Score: 133.253422
- Max Citation Score: 141.76613
- Similarity Product: 93.26720679984808

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

Dataset: test