PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15860072
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["700", "282000"]

Abstract:
A system and method for controlling delivery of gas, including a gas pipeline network having at least one gas production plant, at least one gas receipt facility of a customer, a plurality of pipeline segments, and a plurality of control elements, one or more controllers, and one or more processors. The hydraulic feasibility of providing an increased flow rate of the gas to the gas receipt facility of the customer is determined using a linearized pressure drop model. A latent demand of the customer for the gas is estimated using a latent demand model. Based on the hydraulic feasibility and the latent demand, a new gas flow request rate from the customer is received. A network flow solution is calculated based on the new gas flow request rate. The network flow solution is associated with control element setpoints used by a controller to control one or more control elements.

Claim (Index 2):
The system of  claim 1 , wherein there are pressure limits comprising minimum and maximum pressure constraints, and wherein determining hydraulic feasibility comprises:\n Linearizing a nonlinear pressure drop relationship for one or more of the plurality of pipeline segments to produce one or more linearized pressure drop relationships; Bounding a maximum error in pressure drop estimation for one or more of the plurality of pipeline segments as a maximum difference in estimated pressure drop between the linearized pressure drop relationship and the nonlinear pressure drop relationship; Bounding a maximum error in pressure estimation at one or more locations in the gas pipeline network as a function of the maximum error in pressure drop estimation for the one or more of the plurality of pipeline segments; Using the linearized pressure drop relationships to calculate a network flow solution such that a margin between a pressure estimate produced by the linearized pressure drop relationships and a pressure limit is greater than the maximum error in pressure estimation for a location associated with a pressure limit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38235
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15490394', '15490268', '15490344', '15490308', '12961737']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4572148927656542
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5295363573338638
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4644470392224752
- Mean Citation Score: 319.0019220000001
- Max Citation Score: 386.29837
- Similarity Product: 294.0834105864752

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

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