PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15948454
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["710", "100000"]

Abstract:
A safety-oriented automation system in which additional point-to-point-communications links are installed in addition to the field bus so as to increase functional safety in an automation system.

Claim (Index 1):
An automation system comprising:\n a field bus having at least three coupling points which are configured to provide an automatic coupling and uncoupling of automation devices to/from the field bus, respectively coupled automation devices being configured to establish functionally safe connections between themselves via the field bus, and functional safety being achieved thereby preventing dangerous malfunctions due to errors; and a point-to-point communications link arranged between at least a first coupling point and a second coupling point in addition to the field bus, such that for a first automation device capable of being coupled and uncoupled to/from the first coupling point and for a second automation device capable of being coupled and uncoupled to/from the second coupling point, a paired relationship is present between the automation devices capable of being coupled and uncoupled to/from the field bus, the automation devices capable of being coupled and uncoupled each have a point-to-point communications endpoint, said endpoints being configured to establish, alongside the field bus communication, an additionally point-to-point communication via the point-to-point communications link, and furthermore at least one of the automation devices capable of being coupled and uncoupled has a test device which is configured to safely test, via an additional communication made possible by the additional point-to-point communications link, whether a desired functionally safe connection was established between the automation devices and whether a desired automation device is also located at an opposite end of the point-to-point communications link and a functionally safe connection is not being erroneously established to an automation device which is located at another coupling point which fails to correspond to a paired relationship.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.21739
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15948658', '14147156', '14949627', '13478645', '13478754']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6035124129732471
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4573280030992902
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5888939719858514
- Mean Citation Score: 134.541103
- Max Citation Score: 180.35867
- Similarity Product: 160.64936656638562

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

Dataset: test