PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16011541
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["366", "151100"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention include a method and system for blending multi-component granular compositions such as proppant used in hydraulic fracturing in well drilling. The system includes the control and management of an on-site storage system for each of the components, regulating the delivery of specified quantities of each component to a well site, and coordinating the flow of materials into and out of the blender.

Claim (Index 21):
A method for managing a well site ingredient inventory comprising the steps of:\n (a) predicting an amount of a set of ingredients needed to prepare and use a blend mixture to complete a project at a well site; (b) ensuring the predicted amount of each ingredient is available to complete the project; (c) monitoring a supply of the ingredients at a well site, wherein at least one storage container at the well site contains each ingredient of the blend mixture and wherein each storage container containing one ingredient has a storage container monitoring device that dynamically monitors an amount of the ingredient contained in that storage container; (d) regulating a usage rate of each ingredient of the blend mixture at the well site; (e) monitoring a supply of each ingredient at a remote storage facility; (f) creating an ingredient inventory forecast based on a total amount of each ingredient available at the well site, a total amount of each ingredient available at the remote storage facility, a total usage rate for each ingredient at the well site, a predetermined limit to the total amount of each ingredient available at the well site, and a delivery time needed to deliver a truck load of the ingredient to the on-site ingredient storage container; and (e) activating an ingredient delivery whenever an upcoming need for additional ingredient at the well site is predicted by the ingredient forecast.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.47917
- Patent Class: 366.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15626653', '15287523', '15347126', '14557832', '14318095']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8301514264071344
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5671802562297943
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8038543093894004
- Mean Citation Score: 328.79824
- Max Citation Score: 571.40356
- Similarity Product: 396.7352300403666

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