PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15940990
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["700", "292000"]

Abstract:
A home appliance can operate in a future time frame. Information is obtained from a power distributor in order to determine a time when to operate the home appliance in this future time frame. The home appliance then operates at the time determined with information from the power distributor.

Claim (Index 31):
An electrical device that communicates with home appliances and an electric utility to reduce a cost of electricity to operate the home appliances, the electrical device comprising:\n a memory that stores instructions; a network interface that connects to one or more networks and communicates with the home appliances and with the electric utility; and a processing unit that executes the instructions to: determine amounts of power that the home appliance will use and future time ranges for using the amounts of power with the future time ranges extending for greater than a time needed for the home appliances to use the amounts of power; consolidate the amounts of power into a consolidated amount of power; consolidate the future time ranges into a consolidated future time range; transmit the consolidated amount of power and the consolidated future time range to the electric utility; receive, from the electric utility, a time in the consolidated future time range when to begin to use the consolidated amount of power; and communicate with the home appliances to begin usage of the consolidated amount of power at the time received from the electric utility.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.73333
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14613389', '14022352', '13274305', '13771827', '13912181']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4303185492970448
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.546680350877236
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4419547294550639
- Mean Citation Score: 292.547198
- Max Citation Score: 421.5202
- Similarity Product: 378.31389308848384

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