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 38):
A method executed by a processor in an electrical device to reduce a cost of electricity to a customer and to reduce peak demand to an electric utility, the method comprising:\n determining, by the processor and for appliances of the customer, amounts of power to be used by the appliances during future time ranges that extend for greater than a time needed for the appliances to use the amounts of power; consolidating, by the processor, the amounts of power into a consolidated amount of power; consolidating, by the processor, the future time ranges into a consolidated future time range; transmitting, from the electrical device, the consolidated amount of power and the consolidated future time range to the electric utility; receiving, at the electrical device and from the electric utility, a time during the consolidated future time range when the appliances of the customer can begin to use the consolidated amount of power; and instructing, from the electrical device, the appliances when in time operate such that the appliances commence 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): 0.4301843234517246
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5469144894021416
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4418573400467663
- Mean Citation Score: 292.547198
- Max Citation Score: 421.5202
- Similarity Product: 380.8973010296345

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

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