PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16071935
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["340", "870010"]

Abstract:
A meter reading system, comprising: a monitoring station which monitors a plurality of meters, wherein the meters each include a storage unit which stores data as to usage and/or generation at predetermined intervals and an interface for communication with a meter reader; and a plurality of meter readers which communicate with the monitoring station, and, under control of the monitoring station, each designate the meters to be read and return data read from the meters to the monitoring station; wherein the monitoring station comprises a storage unit which stores data for each of the meters being monitored, and a communications unit which maintains entries for each of the meters for communication to and from the meter readers, the entries each designating the required data to be read from the respective meters; wherein the meter readers each comprise a storage unit which receives the entries for the meters to be monitored thereby, and, on reading the meters, stores the required data, an interface which is connectable to the interfaces of the respective meters and allows for communication with the respective meters, and a communications unit which provides for communication to and from the monitoring station.

Claim (Index 21):
The meter reader of  claim 16 , wherein the entry for each meter designates the data which is required from the respective meter, which represents a limited set of the data as stored by the meter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.14925
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10489217', '12140938', '12992565', '14410807', '10033667']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.689584679917788
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4825020655746418
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6688764184834735
- Mean Citation Score: 166.51426999999995
- Max Citation Score: 179.47952
- Similarity Product: 136.8719172201252

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

Dataset: test