PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16173362
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["700", "050000"]

Abstract:
A management method manages devices in a home includes, receiving operation information on one of the devices when an operation is performed for the one of the devices, specifying times at which the operation was performed, in accordance with the information, and receiving, whenever a state is entered when no one is expected to be home, time information when the state has been entered. Specifying in-home-absence times at which a state has been entered when no one is expected to be home, according to the time information, for each of the devices, calculating time differences for the specified operation times, and for each of the devices, specifying the performed operation as a first behavior of the person correlated to a behavior before the person leaves home, when variation of the calculated time differences of the corresponding one of the devices is equal to or lower than a threshold.

Claim (Index 1):
A device management method used in a server apparatus that manages, via network, a plurality of devices provided in a home, the method comprising:\n receiving operation information on one of a plurality of devices in the home, via a network, every time a certain operation is performed for the one of the plurality of devices; for each of the plurality of devices, specifying operation times at which the certain operation has been performed, in accordance with the received operation information; receiving, every time a state is entered in which it is expected that no one is at home, time information of a time at which the state has been entered; specifying in-home-absence times at which a state has been entered in which it is expected that no one is at home, in accordance with the received time information; for each of the plurality of devices, calculating time differences for the specified operation times, each of the time differences being a difference between a corresponding one of the specified operation times and an in-home-absence time that is first specified within a predetermined period from the corresponding one of the specified operation times; and for each of the plurality of devices, specifying the performed certain operation as a first behavior pattern of the person correlated to a behavior before the person leaves the home, when a variation of the calculated time differences of the corresponding one of the plurality of devices is equal to or lower than a first threshold value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.57143
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14543015', '14654958', '15210877', '11586325', '12141049']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3795299506213055
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5055202246937548
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3921289780285505
- Mean Citation Score: 174.29247600000005
- Max Citation Score: 322.83652
- Similarity Product: 300.22303368557687

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

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