PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16208894
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["340", "870020"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure allow third-parties to collect data at a utility flow meter without substantial interference with the utility's ability to collect data for its own purposes. In an exemplary embodiment, a sub-meter interrupter is included that has a default position to allow for utility reading of a utility flow meter and a second position that allows for third-party reading of the utility flow meter. A third-party flow monitor or interrupter can also monitor attempted “reads” by the utility while the third-party flow monitor is reading the utility flow meter and can switch to the default (e.g., utility read setting) so as to allow the utility to conduct its read.

Claim (Index 3):
A sub-meter monitoring system according to  claim 2 , wherein if the flow monitor detects that the utility is making a read request, the interrupter is switched to the first state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90625
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11955010', '13340380', '13357581', '14922691', '11120173']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6938007966643323
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5081546398396236
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6752361809818614
- Mean Citation Score: 177.126484
- Max Citation Score: 181.73878
- Similarity Product: 107.26612891238572

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