PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16051081
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["700", "275000"]

Abstract:
Techniques are described for controlling distributed operations of devices, such as for devices that are each part of or otherwise associated with a mechanical system containing actuators to manipulate a surrounding environment and optionally further containing sensors to obtain information from the surrounding environment, and with such a device controlling the associated system to perform industrial operations. The described techniques may include identifying a group of multiple such devices to perform one or more assigned tasks, such as in a cooperative distributed manner with each device performing part of the assigned tasks, and/or in a competitive manner with some or all devices independently performing at least one assigned task. The performances of the devices may further be evaluated in various manners, and the devices selected to perform one or more tasks may be identified in various manners (including based at least in part on past performance evaluations).

Claim (Index 54):
The non-transitory computer-readable medium of  claim 53  wherein the multiple devices each controls an associated mechanical system and has capabilities to receive and implement instructions to modify operations of the associated mechanical system, wherein the first task and the second task each involves a specified type of operation for the associated mechanical systems to manipulate a surrounding environment, and wherein the initiating of the performance of the first task includes sending first instructions to each of the multiple devices to cause the device to control the mechanical system associated with the device to perform the specified type of operation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01282
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15809882', '15861524', '11537494', '14719161', '13171129']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3993161695575268
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.475701432699596
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4069546958717338
- Mean Citation Score: 135.578233
- Max Citation Score: 205.93996
- Similarity Product: 158.8381069267011

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