PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15765211
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["700", "282000"]

Abstract:
A system for automatically and optimally balancing lift gas in a pipeline network for lift-gas wells of an oil field. The system includes peer-to-peer sensors for (1) generating local gas values, (2) receiving system data including local gas target values for each of the sensors and first local gas request parameters from at least one other sensor, (3) controlling a corresponding flow control device based on the local gas values and target local gas values for the sensor, and the first local gas request parameters, (4) calculating second local gas request parameters for the sensor based on the local gas values, the local target values, and the system data; and (5) transmitting the system data including the second local gas request parameters to at least one other sensor.

Claim (Index 1):
A system for balancing lift gas for a plurality of lift-gas oil wells of an oil field, the system comprising:\n a pipeline network having a plurality of gas input points, a plurality of gas output points, and pipelines connected therebetween, the pipelines interconnected by at least one junction, each of the gas input points, gas output points and the at least one junction having a detector and a gas flow control device, both of which correspond to a unique one of a plurality of peer-to-peer sensors, each of the plurality of sensors including a communication network interface and a flow control device controller; a plurality of lift-gas oil wells connected respectively to the plurality of gas output points; a communication and control network including the plurality of sensors, each sensor capable of repeatedly: (1) generating local gas values based on an output from the corresponding detector, the local gas values including one or more of gas PVT correlations, gas pressure values, gas density values, and gas flow rate values, (2) receiving system data via the communication network interface, the system data including local gas target values for each of the plurality of sensors and first local gas request parameters from at least one other sensor, (3) controlling the corresponding flow control device via the flow control device controller based on the local gas values and target local gas values for the sensor, and the first local gas request parameters, (4) calculating second local gas request parameters for the sensor based on the local gas values, the local target values, and the system data; and (5) transmitting the system data including the second local gas request parameters to at least one other sensor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37097
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15531250', '14796862', '11952069', '15093954', '14876935']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3961292778491126
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4428757600597287
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4008039260701743
- Mean Citation Score: 140.876832
- Max Citation Score: 145.40842
- Similarity Product: 120.82772778491616

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