PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15879112
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["340", "500000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for communicating alert notifications using discrete input channels are described. An apparatus includes a field device to control a process of a process plant. The field device has a digital valve controller including a process parameter monitor to monitor a process parameter of the field device and an alarm determiner to detect an error condition associated with the process parameter. The alarm determiner generates an alarm notification associated with the error condition of the process parameter. The digital valve controller includes an alarm status assignor to assign a status notification for equipment associated with the process parameter detected by the alarm determiner to be in the error condition and a discrete output channel. The apparatus includes a host device having a discrete input channel directly coupled to the discrete output channel to receive the alarm notification and the status notification from the digital valve controller. The host device is to be communicatively coupled to a control room of a process plant.

Claim (Index 14):
A tangible article of manufacture storing machine readable instructions which, when executed, cause a machine to:\n detect an error condition associated with a field device of a process control system; monitor a status of equipment associated with the error condition; assign a status notification based on an operational status of the monitored equipment; and communicate the detected error condition and the status notification to a discrete input channel of a host.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.75806
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10484907', '10104586', '11189781', '10388050', '09861790']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.724373177062612
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4793737986671524
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.699873239223066
- Mean Citation Score: 153.95068
- Max Citation Score: 163.16523999999995
- Similarity Product: 120.1575488355064

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