PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15872214
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["707", "820000"]

Abstract:
Controlling flow of gas in a gas pipeline network, wherein flow of gas within each of the pipeline segments is associated with a direction (positive or negative). Processors calculate minimum and maximum production rates (bounds) at the gas production plant to satisfy an energy consumption constraint over a period of time. The production rate bounds are used to calculate minimum and maximum signed flow rates (bounds) for each pipeline segment. A nonlinear pressure drop relationship is linearized to create a linear pressure drop model for each pipeline segment. A network flow solution is calculated, using the linear pressure drop model, comprising flow rates for each pipeline segment to satisfy demand constraints and pressures for each of a plurality of network nodes over the period of time to satisfy pressure constraints. The network flow solution is associated with control element setpoints used to control one or more control elements.

Claim (Index 8):
The system of  claim 3 , where the coproduction plant includes a compander.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2027
- Patent Class: 707.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15490308', '15490268', '15490344', '15864464', '15490394']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2799967974032726
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5356098704902317
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3055581047119686
- Mean Citation Score: 355.014862
- Max Citation Score: 401.57965
- Similarity Product: 250.5217258090675

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

Dataset: test