PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16208894
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["340", "870020"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure allow third-parties to collect data at a utility flow meter without substantial interference with the utility's ability to collect data for its own purposes. In an exemplary embodiment, a sub-meter interrupter is included that has a default position to allow for utility reading of a utility flow meter and a second position that allows for third-party reading of the utility flow meter. A third-party flow monitor or interrupter can also monitor attempted “reads” by the utility while the third-party flow monitor is reading the utility flow meter and can switch to the default (e.g., utility read setting) so as to allow the utility to conduct its read.

Claim (Index 23):
A sub-meter monitoring system according to  claim 22 , wherein the flow monitor is configured to monitor whether a read request is coming from the utility meter interface unit and to operate the interrupter such that:\n if the utility is reading the utility flow meter or is about to read the utility flow meter, the interrupter remains in the first state, and if the utility is not reading and is not about to read the utility flow meter, the interrupter is switched to the second state so as to allow a flow monitor reading of the utility flow meter and after the flow monitor reading is complete, the interrupter is switched back to the first state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90625
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11955010', '13340380', '13357581', '14922691', '11120173']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6947553389750893
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5037983547662813
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6756596405542086
- Mean Citation Score: 177.126484
- Max Citation Score: 181.73878
- Similarity Product: 112.62547446336626

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