PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15972411
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["710", "038000"]

Abstract:
An automation system includes a first/second control devices having first/second field bus terminals, a field bus, a peripheral assembly having at least one input/output peripheral module for connection to sensors and/or actuators, where the peripheral assembly includes an interface module having a third field bus terminal for communication to and/or from the control devices, and where the interface module includes at least one input/output module storing interconnect information that creates an association between inputs/outputs of the at least one input/output peripheral module and the control devices, and where the interface module additionally includes a virtual data set module in which a data set receiving module is associated with the first control device to which a data set is writable by the first control device, and includes a data set transmitting module associated with the second controller from which the data set is retrievable by the second control device.

Claim (Index 2):
A method for operating an automation system, a first control device and a second control device exchanging data with a peripheral assembly over a field bus, the method comprising:\n transmitting output data to a peripheral module; transferring the output data to an input/output peripheral module over an input/output module in an interface module of the peripheral assembly; receiving input data from the peripheral module, the input data being received from the input/output peripheral module over the input/output module in the interface module of the peripheral assembly; and operating a virtual data set module in the interface module; wherein the virtual data set module includes a data set receiving module which is associated with the first control device and to which a data set is writable by the first control device, and includes a data set transmitting module which is associated with the second control device and from which the data set is retrievable by the second controller; and wherein simultaneously, within the virtual data set module, the data set of the first control device is copied from the data set receiving module to the data set transmitting module, as a data set for the second control device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46032
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15636812', '10684989', '15228877', '15295528', '15668533']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.616278104111839
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4330323718747248
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5979535308881276
- Mean Citation Score: 142.485472
- Max Citation Score: 147.79482
- Similarity Product: 140.69476086985944

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

Dataset: test