PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15954893
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "254000"]

Abstract:
A communication interface apparatus in a tank gauging system. The communication interface includes a memory and a processor couple to the memory. The processor communicates using a control application with a tank inventory system that operates over a serial connection; and communicates using a wireless application with tank gauging equipment that operates over a wireless connection

Claim (Index 1):
A communication interface (CIU) apparatus in a tank gauging system, the CIU apparatus comprising:\n a serial connection configured to communicate with a tank inventory system; a memory configured to store a CIU application and a wireless application; and a plurality of Ethernet connections each Ethernet connection configured to connect to a switch to wirelessly communicate with tank gauging equipment using the wireless application and each of the plurality of Ethernet connections including a software port, each software port configured to communicate between the CIU application and the wireless application; and a processor coupled to the memory, serial connection and the Ethernet connection, the processor configured to:\n receive, via the serial connection, a command message from the tank inventory system using the CIU application, \n transmit, via the Ethernet connection, the command message to the tank gauging equipment using the wireless application, \n receive, via the Ethernet connection, a response message from the tank gauging equipment using the wireless application, and \n transmit, using the serial connection, the response message to the tank inventory system using the CIU application.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84375
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15073997', '15218844', '11969345', '12467012', '12534651']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.470060233829348
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5059423301650517
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4736484434629183
- Mean Citation Score: 143.642482
- Max Citation Score: 186.58684
- Similarity Product: 108.42636656205175

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