PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15766908
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["700", "079000"]

Abstract:
A system and method for determining a configuration of a process control system for a process plant, the process control system implemented as a set of function blocks, includes, for each of the set of function blocks, determining a configuration of the function block based on: (i) a set of outputs of the function block, (ii) logic of the function block, and (iii) a set of inputs of the function block. The system and method further includes generating, based on the set of configurations of the set of function blocks, a test cause and effect matrix (CEM) having a set of test causes and a set of test effects. The system and method further includes accessing a requirement-defining CEM having a set of causes and a set of effects. The system and method may also include comparing the test CEM to the requirement-defining CEM to determine whether a set of discrepancies exists.

Claim (Index 15):
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing thereon instructions that, when executed by one or more processors in a machine, cause the machine to:\n for each of a set of function blocks that implement a process control system of a process plant, determine a configuration of the function block based on: (i) a set of outputs of the function block, (ii) logic of the function block, and (iii) a set of inputs of the function block; generate, based on the set of configurations of the set of function blocks, a test cause and effect matrix (CEM) having a set of test causes and a set of test effects, wherein at least some of the set of test causes and the set of test effects are related as test cause-effect pairs; access a requirement-defining CEM having a set of causes and a set of effects, wherein each of the set of causes represents a condition within the process plant and each of the set of effects represents an effect to be performed within the process plant, and wherein at least some of the set of causes and the set of effects are related as cause-effect pairs whereby the corresponding effect activates in response to an occurrence of the corresponding condition; and compare the test CEM to the requirement-defining CEM to determine whether a set of discrepancies exists.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 42.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.03509
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10401655', '12767534', '10655929', '10656005', '13937805']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.388654554010556
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4881151610948486
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3986006147189853
- Mean Citation Score: 185.736126
- Max Citation Score: 221.42572
- Similarity Product: 168.5133486884308

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