PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15920037
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["700", "282000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed is a control system for a water network. The control system includes a plurality of remotely-located monitoring and or monitoring and automatic control stations each including an automation controller for local control and automation, and each in communication via a dual-ring communication topology for system or wide-area control. The dual-ring facilitates redundant peer-to-peer data exchange to provide upstream and downstream water flow and water quality information. Systems described herein may calculate flow differential based on water flow data from each of the monitoring stations, and control flow based on the calculated flow differential.

Claim (Index 37):
A wide-area water flow control system, comprising:\n a flow control station including:\n a control automation controller, \n a first plurality of communication devices to facilitate communication via a peer-to-peer communication protocol, and \n a second plurality of communication devices to facilitate communication via a server-client communication protocol; \n a plurality of flow monitoring stations that each include:\n a station communications device with a plurality of communication ports to facilitate communication via at least the peer-to-peer communication protocol and the server-client communication protocol, \n a flow sensor to measure water flow within a water channel and transmit flow data to the flow control station via the station communications device, and \n an adjustable water flow control device to control water flow within the water channel based on control signals received from the flow control station; \n a peer-to-peer communications network connecting the flow control station and the plurality of control monitoring stations in a ring topology; and a server-client communications network facilitating server-client communication from the control communication device to each of the plurality of flow monitoring stations.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81818
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14265018', '15219932', '14634014', '13831772', '14561271']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3318798864163437
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4526306208606394
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3439549598607733
- Mean Citation Score: 109.7304264
- Max Citation Score: 125.105316
- Similarity Product: 97.64105953513167

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

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