PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15952060
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["700", "284000"]

Abstract:
Described herein are several embodiments relating to modular irrigation controllers. In many implementations, the irrigation controllers are modular in that various functional components of the irrigation controller are implemented in removable modules that when inserted into position within the controller, expand the capabilities of the controller. Also described are various different types of expansion modules that may be coupled to the modular controller, having as variety of functions and features, as well as related methods of use and configuration of these modules in the controller. In some embodiments, a serial communication bus is provided between a control unit of a modular irrigation controller and an expansion module.

Claim (Index 12):
The method of  claim 9  wherein the asynchronously communicating step further comprises initiating a message from the second microcontroller to the first microcontroller via the serial multi-drop bus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78462
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12646967', '11022179', '12638932', '12204747', '12911703']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5369653554599344
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5708969734614798
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.540358517260089
- Mean Citation Score: 424.386172
- Max Citation Score: 465.3007
- Similarity Product: 460.4786859360338

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