PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15863731
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["455", "007000"]

Abstract:
Remote actuation of machines or machine systems is realized by a system for coupling a radiobeacon to a smart device and in turn to a broader network. The smart device is configured as a proximity-actuated “community nodal device” by an application that operates as part of the system. The community nodal device is given instructions to function as a “soft switch”: to automatically “upswitch”, amplify, and broadcast low energy, local area radiobeacon “messages” to a cloud-based server, where the message is interpreted according to rules or policies established by an operator, and a command is transmitted for execution to a remote device. Conventional smart devices generally discard data not addressed to the owner of the smart device. Instead of discarding third party messages, the system preempts their handling, and using a soft switch formed from background resources, anonymously, without access to the message by a user interface of the proxy device, and without waiting for a network query from the host, engineers an “upswitched transmission” of radiobeacon-generated data to a cloud host. Advantageously, confidential sharing of ad hoc community resources results in a negligible load on background resources of the community nodal device. Messages may include a sensor data payload. Bit overloading enables a sensor data payload to be compressed into a few hundred bytes or less.

Claim (Index 1):
A system for upswitching sensor and identification data contained in a low energy radio beacon message to a dedicated cloud host via at least one community nodal device in operative communication with a broad area network, the system comprising:\n (a) one or more radiobeacons having a sensor or sensor package, a radio emitter with antenna, an encoder, a device processor with supporting logic circuitry, and memory for storing data and an instruction set to be executed by said device processor, wherein said radiobeacon or radiobeacons are configured to emit a low energy radio message or messages that include an owner unique identifier, a community unique identifier, and a sensor payload; wherein said unique identifiers define a qualified radio signal; (b) a broad area network, said broad area network having a cloud host, said cloud host having a dedicated cloud IP address associated with said community of members, wherein said cloud host is configured to identify a qualified hub radio signal, an owner of record of the qualified hub radio signal, and any sensor payload in said qualified radio signal; (c) one or more smart devices of a plurality of smart devices, each said smart device having a registered owner; wherein said smart devices are configured to receive a command or notification from said cloud host; (d) an application installable on said one or more smart devices; wherein said application is enabled to:\n i) reconfigure said one or more smart devices as each a community nodal device, each said community nodal device having permission to use background resources thereof to separate said qualified radio signal from unidentifiable signals, to dump said unidentifiable signals, to time stamp said qualified radio signal, and to disable foreground disclosure thereof when said owner of record of said qualified radio signal is not said private owner of said radiobeacon or radiobeacons; \n ii) format said qualified radio signal as a radio message addressed to said dedicated cloud IP address associated with said community of members; and, \n iii) use background resources to forward broadcast said radio message on said broad area network to said cloud host; \n (e) further wherein said cloud host is enabled to receive said qualified radio signal from one or more of said community nodal devices;\n i) parse said qualified radio message to identify an owner of record and any sensor payload; \n ii) formulate said command or notification in response thereto according to rules established by said owner of record, said community of members, and said sensor payload; and, \n iii) transmit said command or notification over said broad area network to at least one smart device or community nodal device of said plurality of smart devices, to a remote machine, to an actuation device, or to a combination thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.96825
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15681806', '14967339', '14274633', '15180080', '14681577']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6644192040007703
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6823209456992988
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6662093781706231
- Mean Citation Score: 369.774426
- Max Citation Score: 682.4732700000002
- Similarity Product: 670.2035535859646

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