PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15968516
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["703", "002000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of systems and approaches for managing post-harvest crop quality and pests are described. Such a system may include a plurality of edge devices each comprising sensor components and collectively forming a mesh network, for measuring the local physical environment within stored crops and, for example, transmitting the measurements to a service from within the crop storage area. In certain embodiments, such a system may be used to manage post-harvest crops and storage areas—for example, approaches are described for determining fumigation treatment duration, determining phosphine dosage, determining heat treatment duration, and determining safe storage time for crops.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for managing a current post-harvest crop heat treatment in a current storage area, comprising:\n at a server, preparing a training set of heat treatment time series comprising temperature measurements generated by a first plurality of edge devices placed inside a variety of training storage areas, wherein the temperature measurements comprise measurements of a respective local temperature for a respective edge device at a respective location within the respective training storage area across a respective range of time points; clustering each time series of the training set of heat treatment time series using a k-shape-based distance method to generate a plurality of time series clusters, each time series cluster having a time axis; extracting a respective plurality of cluster centroids for a range of points along the time axis of the respective cluster from the plurality of time series clusters; at the server, receiving current temperature measurement data generated by a current plurality of edge devices placed inside the current storage area, wherein the current temperature measurement data comprises one or more measurements of a respective local temperature for a respective edge device at a respective location within the current storage area; arranging the temperature measurements into a respective current time series for each respective edge device in the current storage area; calculating the sum of squared distances between each current time series and the centroids associated with each time series cluster; assigning each current time series to the respective time series cluster associated with the smallest sum of squared distances; based on the centroids for each assigned cluster, identifying the expected temperatures at the respective locations within the current storage area for a range of future time points; based on the current time series, expected temperatures at the respective locations, and a protocol for pest heat tolerance, providing an estimate of the duration for the current post-harvest crop heat treatment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.6875
- Patent Class: 703.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15968495', '14463111', '14853593', '15395613', '12252159']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.219858241760134
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.527103450983707
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2505827626824913
- Mean Citation Score: 159.1770408
- Max Citation Score: 328.43024
- Similarity Product: 212.54013874753

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

Dataset: test