PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16218202
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["700", "284000"]

Abstract:
The present embodiments provide systems, processes and/or methods of controlling irrigation. In some embodiments, methods are provided that receive ( 4112 ) water usage information corresponding to a first volumetric water usage at a site location having an irrigation controller ( 130 ), wherein the first volumetric water usage corresponds to volumetric water usage from a beginning of a budget period of time to a first time within the budget period of time; determine ( 4114 ) automatically whether a volumetric water budget at the site location will be met for the budget period of time based on at least the first volumetric water usage, the volumetric water budget corresponding to a specified volume of water for use during the budget period of time; determine ( 4116 ) automatically, in the event the volumetric water budget will not be met, an adjustment to the irrigation by the irrigation controller; and output ( 4118 ) signaling to effect the adjustment.

Claim (Index 2):
The method of  claim 1  wherein the receiving step comprises:\n receiving the water usage information taken by a water meter at the site location and corresponding to the first volumetric water usage at the site location having the irrigation controller.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 68.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32877
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13500882', '14989771', '12150201', '13276219', '14027908']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5037926193130319
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5839554705080521
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5118089044325339
- Mean Citation Score: 313.79216
- Max Citation Score: 476.03427
- Similarity Product: 471.6355282296396

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

Dataset: test