PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15935323
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["455", "066100"]

Abstract:
The systems and methods described herein are directed to techniques for improving battery life performance of end devices in resource monitoring systems which transmit data using low-power, wide area network (LPWAN) technologies. Further, the techniques include providing sensor interfaces in the end devices configured to communicate with multiple types of metrology sensors. Additionally, the systems and methods include techniques for reducing the size of a concentrator of a gateway device which receives resource measurement data from end devices. The reduced size of the concentrator results in smaller, more compact gateway devices that consume less energy and reduce heat dissipation experienced in gateway devices. The concentrator may comply with modular interface standards, and include two radios configured for transmitting 1-watt signals. Lastly, the systems and methods include techniques for fully redundant radio architecture within a gateway device, allowing for maximum range and minimizing downtime due to transmission overlap.

Claim (Index 1):
A computing device for communicating metrology data collected by one or more water sensors to a gateway device, the computing device comprising:\n a housing; an internal antenna disposed on an interior of the housing; an external antenna port disposed exterior to the housing; one or more input ports to receive the metrology data from the one or more water sensors; an internal power supply module, disposed inside the housing, including one or more batteries coupled to a supercapacitor, wherein the one or more batteries and the supercapacitor provide power to components of the computing device; a microcontroller comprising one or more processors and encoded with logic for controlling operations of the computing device; a radio frequency (RF) transceiver, coupled to the internal antenna and the external antenna port, and configured to communicate signals using a low-power wide area network (LPWAN) standard, the RF transceiver comprising:\n a first transmit path, associated with an external power supply, for transmitting communications using at least one of the internal antenna or the external antenna port; \n a second transmit path, associated with the internal power supply module, for transmitting communications using at least one of the internal antenna or the external antenna port; and \n a receive path for receiving communications using at least one of the internal antenna or the external antenna port; and \n computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors of the microcontroller to perform acts comprising: \n causing the computing device to enter a low-power mode for a first predefined period of time; \n based at least in part on detecting an end of the first predefined period of time, causing the computing device to switch from the low-power mode to a communication mode for a second period of time, wherein the second period of time is less than the first predefined period of time, and wherein the low-power mode consumes less power than the communication mode; \n while in the communication mode, causing the RF transceiver to transmit, via the second transmit path and by at least one of the external antenna port or the internal antenna, a signal representing a portion of the metrology data collected by the one or more water sensors to the gateway device, wherein the RF transceiver receives power from the supercapacitor to transmit the signal; and \n in response to transmitting the signal, causing the computing device to enter the low-power mode for the first predefined period of time.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.70526
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15423512', '15423500', '15935285', '11601445', '15103545']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6697590803689298
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5233901255977177
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6551221848918086
- Mean Citation Score: 216.718138
- Max Citation Score: 348.04355
- Similarity Product: 338.8638821173787

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

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