PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16104492
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["710", "200000"]

Abstract:
A system and method for gas pump or carwash environments which allows new applications to be added to established systems, having a computing system, software techniques, and hardware or software communications interfaces. Various embodiments include methods of separation and interception and the software techniques. One implementation includes separating a first application from an equipped device by interposing a bridge; intercepting, with the bridge, downstream communications to the equipped device from the first application; using the bridge, accepting downstream communications to the equipped device from a second application; with the bridge, locking communications with the equipped device to one of the first application and the second application; and unlocking the communications with the equipped device in response to receiving a status from the equipped device.

Claim (Index 17):
An equipment apparatus, comprising:\n one or more dispensers disposed at least partially in a housing; a bridge circuit disposed at least partially in the housing; and the bridge circuit comprising:\n a hardware processor, configured to perform a predetermined set of basic operations in response to receiving a corresponding basic instruction, the corresponding basic instruction being one of a plurality of machine codes defining a predetermined native instruction set for the hardware processor; \n a memory under control of the hardware processor; \n an application end interface under control of the hardware processor and adapted to communicate over a network; \n an upstream communication module, configured to enable the hardware processor to communicate via the application end interface, and comprising a first set of the plurality of machine codes; \n one or more equipment end interfaces under control of the hardware processor and respectively electrically connected with the one or more dispensers; \n a downstream communication module comprising a second set of the plurality of machine codes, configured to enable the hardware processor to communicate via the one or more equipment end interfaces; \n a control module comprising a third set of the plurality of machine codes, configured to enable the hardware processor to respond to commands received via the application end interface and to issue instructions to the one or more dispensers via the one or more equipment end interfaces; and \n the memory storing the first set of the plurality of machine codes, the second set of the plurality of machine codes, and the third set of the plurality of machine codes.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15625
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11613981', '12521761', '12480597', '09684388', '10774570']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6307495378863456
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4721267872728518
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6148872628249962
- Mean Citation Score: 135.39805800000002
- Max Citation Score: 152.50891
- Similarity Product: 110.5059316660571

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

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