PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16152617
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["340", "662000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure describes methods and apparatus for detecting a pattern warning signal from a hazard detector in the presence of a second pattern warning signal from a second hazard detector. In one embodiment, hazard detector monitoring device converts a pattern warning signal and a second pattern warning signal into a composite electronic signal, each of the first and second pattern warning signals comprising an on-time period followed by an off-time period. Next, the composite electronic signal is converted into a digital signal and then an on-time duration of the digital signal is determined as a time that the digital signal exceeded a first voltage threshold. Finally, an alarm signal is transmitted to a receiver when the pattern warning signal has been determined to be present, based on the on-time duration.

Claim (Index 3):
The apparatus of  claim 2 , wherein the processor-executable instructions that cause the apparatus to determine the off-time duration of the digital signal comprise instructions that cause the apparatus to:\n store a minimum off-time duration threshold in the memory equal to the off-time period; store a maximum off-time duration threshold in the memory equal to twice the o-time period, less a gap time period; determine when the digital signal exceeds the first voltage threshold; after determining that the digital signal has exceeded the first voltage threshold, determine when the digital signal falls below a second voltage threshold; determine the on-time duration of the digital signal based on the elapsed time between when the digital signal exceeded the first voltage threshold and when the digital signal fell below the second voltage threshold; compare the on-time duration of the digital signal to the minimum and maximum on-time duration thresholds; and determine that the hazardous condition is present when the on-time duration of the digital signal is greater than the minimum on-time duration threshold and less than the maximum on-time duration threshold.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12121
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15226809', '15814517', '15380437', '14793421', '14173445']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7459756431142494
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5163894263596767
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7230170214387921
- Mean Citation Score: 274.888498
- Max Citation Score: 314.96265
- Similarity Product: 298.1515355272561

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

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