PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15935285
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["455", "078000"]

Abstract:
The systems and methods described herein are directed to techniques for improving battery life performance of end devices in resource monitoring systems which transmit data using low-power, wide area network (LPWAN) technologies. Further, the techniques include providing sensor interfaces in the end devices configured to communicate with multiple types of metrology sensors. Additionally, the systems and methods include techniques for reducing the size of a concentrator of a gateway device which receives resource measurement data from end devices. The reduced size of the concentrator results in smaller, more compact gateway devices that consume less energy and reduce heat dissipation experienced in gateway devices. The concentrator may comply with modular interface standards, and include two radios configured for transmitting 1-watt signals. Lastly, the systems and methods include techniques for fully redundant radio architecture within a gateway device, allowing for maximum range and minimizing downtime due to transmission overlap.

Claim (Index 1):
A concentrator chip comprising:\n a printed circuit board (PCB); a first antenna connector and a second antenna connector; at least one processor, disposed on the PCB, and configured to perform power functions and interfacing functions for the concentrator chip; a baseband processor, disposed on the PCB, and configured to control a first radio of the concentrator chip and a second radio of the concentrator chip; the first radio, disposed on the PCB, comprising:\n a first front-end transceiver to process a first signal at a first frequency; and \n a first transmit path including a first power amplifier to amplify, as a first amplified signal, the first signal received from the first front-end transceiver and pass the first amplified signal to the first antenna connector for transmission; \n the second radio, disposed on the PCB, comprising:\n a second front-end transceiver to process a second signal at a second frequency; and \n a second transmit path including a second power amplifier to amplify, as a second amplified signal, the second signal received from the second front-end transceiver and pass the second amplified signal to the second antenna connector for transmission; and \n a power supply, disposed on the PCB, controlled by the at least one processor and configured to provide power to the first power amplifier and the second power amplifier, wherein the concentrator chip is configured to be removably coupled to a computing device and to transmit and receive signals to one or more sensors for collecting resource consumption data, the concentrator chip further configured for providing the resource consumption data to one or more centralized server computers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.70526
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15423500', '15423512', '15935323', '14656623', '13089798']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6832985877591863
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5245724330135326
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.667425972284621
- Mean Citation Score: 214.289812
- Max Citation Score: 351.01486
- Similarity Product: 342.62743474448206

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

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