PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16037076
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["340", "870020"]

Abstract:
The present invention describes a smart metering device being part of an advanced metering infrastructure. The smart metering device might comprise one or more sub devices such as: metering devices, actuator devices, sensor devices etc. The smart metering device includes a valve arranged to limit the delivery of a utility to the consumer. Moreover the smart metering devices includes a communication device including a transmitter and a receiver for wireless communication with a collector, utilizing a listen after talk mechanism to perform a two way communication to the head end system through a collector. The presented invention is especially beneficial for battery supplied smart metering devices. The advanced metering infrastructure will provide a given service level for communication between the meter and the head end system. The service level will be changed dynamically in order to meet the adequate service level at all times.

Claim (Index 1):
A smart metering device comprising:\n a valve arranged to, when in a first mode, limit the delivery of a utility and, when in a second mode, not limit the delivery of the utility; a communication device having a transmitter and a receiver for wireless communication with a collector, and utilizing a listen after talk mechanism for establishing a two way session by opening at least one reception window after transmission of a data frame; and a battery arranged to supply energy supply at least to the communication device; wherein the smart metering device is arranged to autonomously transmit data frames with a configured transmission interval, and to continuously determine its present state to be critical or non-critical; wherein at least the mode of the valve is a parameter for distinguishing between critical states and non-critical states; and wherein the smart metering device is further arranged to change the transmission interval according to the present state such that the transmission interval is shorter when the state is critical than when the state is non-critical, resulting in a shorter expected latency of initiating a two-way communication session with the smart metering device when in a critical state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86747
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13666378', '13884286', '13029460', '15677920', '13661017']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6621089604170146
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4977278923533098
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6456708536106441
- Mean Citation Score: 154.839058
- Max Citation Score: 179.9804
- Similarity Product: 115.7170676573992

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

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