PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15765211
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["700", "282000"]

Abstract:
A system for automatically and optimally balancing lift gas in a pipeline network for lift-gas wells of an oil field. The system includes peer-to-peer sensors for (1) generating local gas values, (2) receiving system data including local gas target values for each of the sensors and first local gas request parameters from at least one other sensor, (3) controlling a corresponding flow control device based on the local gas values and target local gas values for the sensor, and the first local gas request parameters, (4) calculating second local gas request parameters for the sensor based on the local gas values, the local target values, and the system data; and (5) transmitting the system data including the second local gas request parameters to at least one other sensor.

Claim (Index 10):
A method for controlling gas flows from gas input points to gas output points in a lift-gas pipeline network of an oil field comprising:\n transmitting and retransmitting system data for the pipeline network through a communication and control network including a plurality of peer-to-peer sensors connected to the pipeline network, the system data including local oil values, target local oil values, local gas values, target local gas values, and local gas request parameters; sensing properties of gas flowing through the pipeline network at a first peer-to-peer sensor of the plurality of sensors and generating first local gas values therefrom; generating first local gas request parameters based on the system data and the first local gas values; transmitting the first local gas request parameters from the first sensor to a second peer-to-peer sensor of the plurality of sensors; receiving the first local gas request parameters at the second sensor; controlling gas flow through the pipeline network at the location of the second sensor based on the first local gas request parameters; sensing properties of gas flowing through the pipeline network at the second sensor and generating second local gas values therefrom; generating second local gas request parameters based on the system data and the second local gas values; and, transmitting the second local gas request parameters to a third peer-to-peer sensor of the plurality of sensors.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37097
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15531250', '14796862', '11952069', '15093954', '14876935']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.392478707492762
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4569530475395452
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3989261414974403
- Mean Citation Score: 140.876832
- Max Citation Score: 145.40842
- Similarity Product: 109.07663048836709

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

Dataset: test