PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16055488
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["455", "456100"]

Abstract:
Distributed systems, controllers and methods for processing information from a plurality of devices are provided. A distributed system includes a plurality of devices distributed in an environment. Each device has at least a communication capability for interchanging information with others of the devices and/or with a communication system. Each of at least some of the devices has one or more sensors for acquiring sensor data related to the environment proximate to the device. At least one of the communication system or one or more of the devices is configured as a controller configured to: select a subset of devices from among the plurality of devices, receive information based on the acquired sensor data of the selected subset, and combine the received information from the selected subset to determine a characteristic of the environment proximate to one or more of the devices.

Claim (Index 14):
The method of  claim 13 , further comprising determining a position of each device of the plurality of devices.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30769
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13976636', '14007482', '15004118', '13454568', '14776279']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6496043036919738
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4765467355343708
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6322985468762135
- Mean Citation Score: 108.6152322
- Max Citation Score: 138.39372
- Similarity Product: 92.7987607903218

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

Dataset: test