PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15943129
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["709", "225000"]

Abstract:
A computer-implemented method of limiting access time to a computer network for client computing devices may comprise disposing an access controlling device such as a router between the computer network and the client computing devices such that the client computing devices can only access the network through the access controlling device, at least while within an area of coverage thereof. A unique identifier may be stored for client computing devices whose access to the network is to be limited and a selectable allowable cumulative network access time period may be stored for at least some of these client computing devices. Using at least the unique identifiers, the cumulative network usage time may be tracked for each of the client computing devices. The access controlling device may then prevent further network access to those client computing devices whose tracked cumulative network usage time exceeds the selectable allowable cumulative network access time period.

Claim (Index 18):
A computer-implemented method of limiting access time to a wide area network from a local area network for a plurality of controlled client devices, comprising:\n operating, on the local area network, an access controlling device comprising at least one of a network gateway and a router between the wide area network and the plurality of controlled client devices, wherein:\n the plurality of controlled client devices can access the wide area network only through the access controlling device while within an area of coverage thereof; and \n the plurality of controlled client devices operates without client-side parental-control software for controlling access to the wide area network; \n storing, on the access controlling device, a unique identifier for each of the plurality of controlled client devices whose access to the wide area network is to be limited; associating, on the access controlling device, a selectable allowable cumulative network access time period, received from an administrator device on the local area network, with at least some of the plurality of controlled client devices whose access to the wide area network is to be limited; using at least the unique identifiers to track a cumulative network usage time for each of the plurality of controlled client devices whose access to the wide area network is to be limited; providing, through a user interface accessible on at least one of the plurality of controlled client devices, a mechanism configured to enable a user of the at least one of the plurality of controlled client devices whose cumulative network usage time is tracked to send a request for additional network usage time to the access controlling device; receiving, in the access controlling device, the sent request for additional network usage time; selectively granting or denying, by the access controlling device, the received request for additional network usage time; and preventing, by the access controlling device, further access to the wide area network by the controlled client devices whose tracked cumulative network usage time meets or exceeds the selectable allowable cumulative network access time period while allowing access to the wide area network to those controlled client devices whose tracked cumulative network usage time does not exceed the selectable allowable cumulative network access time period.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.45312
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13717481', '13724875', '11556624', '15263397', '13431095']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.244959247791852
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.506401399808651
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2711034629935319
- Mean Citation Score: 172.869242
- Max Citation Score: 314.88815
- Similarity Product: 280.0598706376076

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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