PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15878977
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["700", "278000"]

Abstract:
A control device, such as a smart thermostat, employs solid state relays as switches to activate and deactivate systems controlled by the device. Current flows through at least some of the solid state relays are monitored to determine the bulk heating produced in the solid state relays, and their associated circuitry and printed circuit board traces, and this determined amount of bulk heat is added to other determined amounts of bulk heat and is used to compensate the reading provided by temperature sensors within the control device which have been affected by the bulk heat. Further, by measuring the current flow through the power buses to one or more of the solid state relays of the control device, potentially damaging over current conditions can be distinguished from permissible transient over-current conditions and the control device can deactivate any solid state relays which would be damaged while allowing solid state relays which are experiencing allowable transients to remain operating. In the case of a severe over current condition, a current monitoring device can issue a fault signal, triggering an interrupt condition which will cause a processor in the controller to shut down the affected solid state relays very quickly.

Claim (Index 9):
The method of  claim 6  wherein the processor monitors the value of the determined amount of current reported by the current monitoring device and compares that value to a predefined set of threshold values comprising a current value and a permitted time value, and the processor deactivates the at least one solid state relay if a threshold value is exceeded for more than the corresponding permitted time value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.875
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15292648', '15680670', '15349802', '15725995', '13034674']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3558198206049944
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5329782796860474
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3735356665130998
- Mean Citation Score: 195.654112
- Max Citation Score: 370.02853
- Similarity Product: 207.280886780591

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

Dataset: test