PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15919382
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["347", "137000"]

Abstract:
A temperature change detection apparatus for monitoring temperature change in various portions of a large space includes a trip logic unit configured to execute a trip operation based on receipt of a trip signal at the trip logic unit; a plurality of temperature sensors each including a sensing portion composed of optical fiber cable and each being configured to generate light information indicating an amount of Brillouin scattering that occurs within the sensing portion; a plurality of monitoring units configured such that each monitoring unit determines a temperature value corresponding to each temperature sensor connected to the monitoring unit based on an amount of Brillouin scattering indicated by the light information generated by each of the connected temperature sensors, an each monitoring unit generates a trip signal when a determined temperature value exceeds a running average by more than a threshold amount.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of monitoring temperature change in first space including a plurality of monitoring areas, the method comprising:\n generating, for a first time interval, first temperature values indicative of the temperatures of the plurality of monitoring areas based on light information generated by a plurality of temperature sensors located in the plurality of monitoring areas, the plurality of temperature sensors being fiber optic Brillouin scattering temperature sensors, the plurality of temperature sensors being divided between a plurality of safety divisions; determining, for each of the plurality of safety divisions, a first mean value corresponding to the first time interval by performing an averaging operation on the first temperature values generated by temperature sensors of the safety division; updating, for each of the plurality of safety divisions, a running average value, by performing an averaging operation on the first mean value and a plurality of earlier mean values generated, respectively, for a plurality of time intervals that precede the first time interval and fall within a sliding window; performing a comparison operation based on the first temperature values of each of the plurality of safety divisions and the running average value, performing a first determination operation including,\n determining, based on the comparison operation, that one or more of the safety divisions are indicated safety divisions, each indicated safety divisions being a safety division that includes at least one temperature sensor that generated a first temperature value that exceeds the running average value by more than a threshold amount, and \n generating a trip indication for each of the one or more indicated safety divisions, respectively; and \n executing a trip operation based on the first determination operation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13065842', '14178820', '14671172', '15831485', '14226948']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6788114400539724
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4892283111946514
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6598531271680403
- Mean Citation Score: 135.51696399999997
- Max Citation Score: 143.1555
- Similarity Product: 89.12755042523146

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

Dataset: test