PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16021581
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "350000"]

Abstract:
Technologies are described herein for time-synchronizing multiple remote network nodes concurrently with time beacons. A hub device in the network, at a preconfigured start time, begins to periodically broadcast time beacons containing current time values retrieved from an accurate time source over a beacon period, while other nodes of the network, at the same preconfigured start time, start listening for time beacons. When a node receives a time beacon broadcast by the hub device, the node sets a real-time clock of the node to the current time value in the received time beacon.

Claim (Index 32):
A system comprising:\n a collection hub in an advanced metering infrastructure (\u201cAMI\u201d) network connected to an accurate time source and configured with a start time, a beacon period, the collection hub further configured to determine one or more beacon channels on which to broadcast time beacons, at the start time, repeatedly broadcast time beacons on the one or more beacon channels over the beacon period, each time beacon containing a current time value retrieved from the accurate time source; and a child node in the AMI network configured with the start time, the child node further configured to determine the one or more beacon channels to which to listen, at the start time, listen for time beacons on the one or more beacon channels, and upon receiving a time beacon broadcast by the collection hub, set a real-time clock of the child node to the current time value in the received time beacon.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88889
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15065423', '15161448', '14475050', '15206851', '15877548']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5230023410651923
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5724771077680316
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5279498177354762
- Mean Citation Score: 273.102062
- Max Citation Score: 501.2124
- Similarity Product: 378.0902942282438

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