PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15864464
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["700", "282000"]

Abstract:
Controlling flow of gas in a gas pipeline network, wherein flow within each pipeline segment is associated with a direction (positive or negative). Minimum and maximum signed flow rates are calculated for each pipeline segment constituting lower and upper bounds, respectively, for flow in each pipeline segment. A nonlinear pressure drop relationship is linearized within the lower and upper flow bounds to create a linear pressure drop model for each pipeline segment. A network flow solution is calculated, using the linear pressure drop model, and includes flow rates for each pipeline segment to satisfy demand constraints and pressures for each of a plurality of network nodes to satisfy pressure constraints. Lower and upper bounds on the pressure constraint comprise a minimum delivery pressure and a maximum operating pressure, respectively. The network flow solution is associated with control element setpoints used by a controller to control one or more control elements.

Claim (Index 7):
The system of  claim 1 , where the linearized pressure drop model for a pipe segment predicts a pressure drop of zero for the pipe segment when flow in the pipe segment is zero, if the sign of the minimum signed flow rate is different than the sign of the maximum signed flow rate of the pipe segment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.24658
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15490268', '15490344', '15860072', '15490394', '15490308']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4929485396297381
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5875900172327443
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5024126873900389
- Mean Citation Score: 445.90862
- Max Citation Score: 515.50684
- Similarity Product: 439.6502953083945

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

Dataset: test