PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15920037
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["700", "282000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed is a control system for a water network. The control system includes a plurality of remotely-located monitoring and or monitoring and automatic control stations each including an automation controller for local control and automation, and each in communication via a dual-ring communication topology for system or wide-area control. The dual-ring facilitates redundant peer-to-peer data exchange to provide upstream and downstream water flow and water quality information. Systems described herein may calculate flow differential based on water flow data from each of the monitoring stations, and control flow based on the calculated flow differential.

Claim (Index 21):
A water flow control system comprising:\n a plurality of adjustable gates, wherein each adjustable gate is adjustable to control the flow of water within one of a plurality of water channels; a plurality of flow sensors, wherein each flow sensor measures flow data of one of the plurality of water channels; a plurality of flow monitoring stations, wherein each flow monitoring station is associated with one of the plurality of water channels to receive flow data from an associated flow sensor and transmit control signals to an associated adjustable gate,\n wherein one of the flow monitoring stations serves as a flow control station to receive flow data from and transmit commands to others of the plurality of flow monitoring stations; and \n a dual-ring redundant communications network supporting two different protocols, comprising:\n a first communications network that connects each of the plurality of flow monitoring stations in a ring topology that facilitates a bi-directional peer-to-peer communications protocol, and \n a second communications network that enables the flow control station to transmit commands to others of the plurality of flow monitoring stations via a centralized server-client protocol.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81818
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14265018', '15219932', '14634014', '13831772', '14561271']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.324684552561823
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4823435987465262
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3404504571802934
- Mean Citation Score: 109.7304264
- Max Citation Score: 125.105316
- Similarity Product: 78.16634163544965

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

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