PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16005696
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["340", "870020"]

Abstract:
Device, system, and method of protecting utility meters and utility infrastructure; and particularly, for determining whether an electricity meter or associated electricity wires have been tampered with or have been physically switched or manipulated. An electricity meter includes a challenge transmitter to transmit a challenge message, via a wired electric cable, to a consumer-side responder that is located within a venue which receives electric power via the electricity meter. The electricity meter further includes a response receiver to receive a response message from the consumer-side responder via the wired electric cable, and to check the response message for correctness based on a shared secret that is known only to the electricity meter and to the consumer-side responder.

Claim (Index 17):
The method of  claim 16 , comprising:\n if said response message does not match a pre-defined shared secret that is known only to said electric meter and to said responding unit, then determining that said electricity meter or associated electric wires have been tampered with.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92424
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14134471', '14539359', '15086104', '12790285', '10955881']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6600301680360118
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4754612781258313
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6415732790449937
- Mean Citation Score: 105.9600414
- Max Citation Score: 114.614296
- Similarity Product: 77.98744207992316

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

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