PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16051081
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["700", "275000"]

Abstract:
Techniques are described for controlling distributed operations of devices, such as for devices that are each part of or otherwise associated with a mechanical system containing actuators to manipulate a surrounding environment and optionally further containing sensors to obtain information from the surrounding environment, and with such a device controlling the associated system to perform industrial operations. The described techniques may include identifying a group of multiple such devices to perform one or more assigned tasks, such as in a cooperative distributed manner with each device performing part of the assigned tasks, and/or in a competitive manner with some or all devices independently performing at least one assigned task. The performances of the devices may further be evaluated in various manners, and the devices selected to perform one or more tasks may be identified in various manners (including based at least in part on past performance evaluations).

Claim (Index 31):
A computer-implemented method comprising:\n sending, by one or more computing systems and to each of multiple devices, first instructions over one or more networks to implement a specified type of operation that causes a mechanical system associated with the device to change an environment around the associated mechanical system; evaluating, by the one or more computing systems, performance of each of the multiple devices in implementing the specified type of operation, including scoring the performance of each of the multiple devices according to one or more specified criteria; selecting, by the one or more computing systems, one or more devices of the multiple devices to implement additional operations of the specified type, wherein the selecting is based at least in part on the evaluated performance of the one or more devices; and sending, by the one or more computing systems and based on the selecting, one or more second instructions to each of the one or more devices to implement one or more of the additional operations of the specified type.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01282
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15809882', '15861524', '11537494', '14719161', '13171129']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3730256168327375
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4654473919615078
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3822677943456145
- Mean Citation Score: 135.578233
- Max Citation Score: 205.93996
- Similarity Product: 171.60264804154875

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