PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15754287
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["166", "250010"]

Abstract:
Methods including isolating a first treatment zone comprising an opening into a subterranean formation. A high-viscosity treatment fluid (HVTF) is introduced through the opening and incrementally increased fracturing rate steps (IIFRSs) are applied to create or enhance a dominate fracture, wherein between each IIFRS a downhole pressure slope over time will increase, decline, or stabilize at a measured pressure slope. The measured pressure slope is evaluated to determine whether an increasing pressure slope, a stabilizing pressure slope, or a declining pressure slope exists to determine whether and when to apply a subsequent IIFRS. The result is increasing a volume of the dominate fracture due to efficient dominate fracturing with generated back pressure until a first maximum fracturing rate is reached.

Claim (Index 3):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising repeating steps (b) through (d) at the first treatment zone after the first maximum fracturing rate is achieved in step (e), wherein the repeating of steps (b) through (d) is performed at a second maximum fracturing rate that is above the first maximum fracturing rate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72727
- Patent Class: 166.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15754283', '15754574', '15754576', '15758722', '15772795']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8292056931544158
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5530702478325895
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8015921486222333
- Mean Citation Score: 392.4271240000001
- Max Citation Score: 503.05054
- Similarity Product: 339.62808403893354

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

Dataset: test