PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15860072
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["700", "282000"]

Abstract:
A system and method for controlling delivery of gas, including a gas pipeline network having at least one gas production plant, at least one gas receipt facility of a customer, a plurality of pipeline segments, and a plurality of control elements, one or more controllers, and one or more processors. The hydraulic feasibility of providing an increased flow rate of the gas to the gas receipt facility of the customer is determined using a linearized pressure drop model. A latent demand of the customer for the gas is estimated using a latent demand model. Based on the hydraulic feasibility and the latent demand, a new gas flow request rate from the customer is received. A network flow solution is calculated based on the new gas flow request rate. The network flow solution is associated with control element setpoints used by a controller to control one or more control elements.

Claim (Index 1):
A system for controlling delivery of a gas comprising:\n a gas pipeline network comprising at least one gas production plant, at least one gas receipt facility of a customer, a plurality of pipeline segments, and a plurality of control elements; one or more processors configured to:\n determine hydraulic feasibility of providing an increased flow rate of the gas to the gas receipt facility of the customer; \n estimate a latent demand of the customer for the gas using a latent demand model which takes as inputs intrinsic and extrinsic factors, wherein the latent demand comprises a condition under which the customer would benefit from a flow rate of gas that is higher than a current consumption of gas by the customer; \n receive a new customer gas flow rate request based on the hydraulic feasibility and the latent demand; and \n calculate a network flow solution based on the new gas flow rate request, the network flow solution being associated with control element setpoints; and \n one or more controllers receiving data describing the control element setpoints and controlling at least some of the plurality of control elements based on the data describing the control element setpoints.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38235
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15490394', '15490268', '15490344', '15490308', '12961737']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4543237100579578
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.531948183053179
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4620861573574799
- Mean Citation Score: 319.0019220000001
- Max Citation Score: 386.29837
- Similarity Product: 377.7557760111004

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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