PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15948860
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["340", "870020"]

Abstract:
An advanced metering infrastructure may be configured for automated meter reading, such as of utility (electric, natural gas, etc.) meters. Within a network, a data collector communicates with, and receives meter data from, a plurality of endpoints. Firmware on the endpoints may be updated by transmission, from the data collector, of a new firmware image. In one example, the data collector sends an announcement of a firmware update to the plurality of endpoints. At a time indicated by the announcement, the data collector multicasts the firmware update a plurality of times. The data collector then receives indications from a plurality of endpoints that did not successfully receive all blocks of the multicast firmware update. In response, the data collector sends missing blocks to the plurality of endpoints according to the indications.

Claim (Index 19):
The endpoint of  claim 17 , wherein inventory module is additionally configured to:\n perform an inventory assessment after each of a plurality of multicasts; and discontinue reception of the image prior to completion of the plurality of multicasts if the inventory assessment indicates the image is complete.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11111
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14398940', '15222613', '13464746', '13464678', '13833252']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7175925429547417
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5658561806341257
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7024189067226801
- Mean Citation Score: 271.536692
- Max Citation Score: 431.08075
- Similarity Product: 373.1302859129309

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

Dataset: test