PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15882325
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["701", "070000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for communicating between control systems via hydraulic fluid. In one example embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes operating a first pressure regulating device associated with a first control system to regulate a fluid pressure of hydraulic fluid being supplied through a hydraulic line, the first pressure regulating device being in fluid communication with a hydraulically actuated component via the hydraulic line. The method includes controlling the operation of the first pressure regulating device to generate a fluid-pressure based signal within the hydraulic line, the signal providing an indication of an operational status of at least one of the first control system or the hydraulically actuated component. The method includes detecting pressure changes within the hydraulic line associated with the signal to allow a second control system to monitor the operational status of the first control system and/or the hydraulically actuated component.

Claim (Index 8):
A system for communicating between control systems via hydraulic fluid, the system comprising:\n a hydraulically actuated component; a first control system including a first pressure regulating device in fluid communication with the hydraulically actuated component via a hydraulic line, the first control system configured to control an operation of the first pressure regulating device to regulate a fluid pressure of hydraulic fluid supplied through the hydraulic line so as to generate a fluid-pressure based signal within the hydraulic line, the fluid-pressure based signal providing an indication of an operational status of at least one of the first control system or the hydraulically actuated component; and a second control system including a second pressure regulating device in fluid communication with the hydraulically actuated component via the hydraulic line, the second control system being configured to monitor the operational status of at least one of the first control system or the hydraulically actuated component by detecting pressure changes within the hydraulic line associated with the fluid-pressure based signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33333
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14770859', '14631204', '14312786', '15006420', '12251416']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3920264199973319
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.470106101161841
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3998343881137829
- Mean Citation Score: 169.70646200000004
- Max Citation Score: 178.46907
- Similarity Product: 140.43473401090085

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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