PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16160708
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["166", "250010"]

Abstract:
An automated hydraulic fracturing system, including a pump system, a blender configured to form the fracturing fluid, a proppant storage and delivery system, a hydration unit configured to mix an additive into a fluid to form the fluid mixture and provide the fluid mixture to the blender, a fluid storage and delivery system, and an additive storage and delivery system, and an automated control system including a plurality of sensing devices and a plurality of control devices integrated into the pump system, the blender system, the proppant storage and delivery system, the fluid storage and delivery system, and the additive storage and delivery system, the automated control system configured to monitor parameters of the automated hydraulic fracturing system via the plurality of sensing devices and transmit control instructions for one or more of the plurality of control devices to control an aspect of the automated hydraulic fracturing system.

Claim (Index 13):
An automated hydraulic fracturing method, comprising:\n initiating a hydraulic fracturing operation using an automated hydraulic fracturing system; providing a first material for a fracturing fluid from a first source to a blender, the first source comprising a source sensor for measuring one or more parameters associated with the first source and a source controller for controlling one or more functions of the first source; providing a second material for the fracturing fluid from a second source to the blender; mixing the first material and the second material at the blender to form the fracturing fluid, the blender comprising a blender sensor for measuring one or more parameters associated with the blender and a blender controller for controlling one or more functions of the bender; providing the fracturing fluid from the blender to a pump, the pump comprising a pump sensor for measuring one or more parameters associated with the pump and a pump controller for controlling one or more functions of the pump; injecting the fracturing fluid from the pump into a wellhead coupled to a well; monitoring the one or more parameters via the source sensor, the blender sensor, and the pump sensor; generating automated instructions for at least one of the source controller, the blender controller, or the pump controller based at last in part on the one or more parameters; and controlling at least one of the one or more functions of the first source, the blender, or the pump via the source controller, the blender controller, or the pump controller, respectively, based at least in part on the automated instructions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.65909
- Patent Class: 166.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15060296', '15838033', '15293681', '14995811', '15644487']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7766737048246922
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4916369992108756
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7481700342633106
- Mean Citation Score: 264.98222200000004
- Max Citation Score: 276.9889
- Similarity Product: 234.39480626933576

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