PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15935323
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["455", "066100"]

Abstract:
The systems and methods described herein are directed to techniques for improving battery life performance of end devices in resource monitoring systems which transmit data using low-power, wide area network (LPWAN) technologies. Further, the techniques include providing sensor interfaces in the end devices configured to communicate with multiple types of metrology sensors. Additionally, the systems and methods include techniques for reducing the size of a concentrator of a gateway device which receives resource measurement data from end devices. The reduced size of the concentrator results in smaller, more compact gateway devices that consume less energy and reduce heat dissipation experienced in gateway devices. The concentrator may comply with modular interface standards, and include two radios configured for transmitting 1-watt signals. Lastly, the systems and methods include techniques for fully redundant radio architecture within a gateway device, allowing for maximum range and minimizing downtime due to transmission overlap.

Claim (Index 12):
A first computing device for communicating resource consumption data collected by one or more sensors to a second computing device, the first computing device comprising:\n a housing; one or more antennas; a microcontroller comprising one or more processors and encoded with logic for controlling operations of the first computing device; a power supply module configured to power the first computing device using at least one of an external power supply or an internal power supply; a radio frequency (RF) transceiver, coupled to the one or more antennas, and configured to communicate signals using a low-power wide area network (LPWAN) standard; a sensor interface comprising:\n an input port configured to accept an input cable of multiple types of sensors to receive metrology data from at least one of the multiple types of sensors; \n a comparator circuit configured to receive the metrology data and store the metrology data in register memory of the computing device; \n a pull-up resistor circuit comprising:\n a pull-up resistor; and \n a first transistor, controllable by the microcontroller, configured to selectively provide a first voltage to the input port via the pull-up resistor; and \n \n an automatic meter reading (AMR) circuit comprising a second transistor, controllable by the microcontroller, configured to selectively provide a second voltage across an output port of the sensor interface, the output port configured to selectively provide at least one of power or a clock signal to at least a portion of the multiple type of sensors; and \n computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors of the microcontroller to perform acts comprising:\n determining a sensor type of a sensor associated with an input cable coupled to the input port; \n based at least in part on determining the sensor type, selectively providing the first voltage to the input port or the second voltage to the output port; \n receiving, by the comparator circuit, the metrology data from the sensor; and \n storing, by the comparator circuit, the metrology data in the register memory.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.70526
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15423512', '15423500', '15935285', '11601445', '15103545']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6698288854413595
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5237735771739765
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6552233546146213
- Mean Citation Score: 216.718138
- Max Citation Score: 348.04355
- Similarity Product: 331.6510903280616

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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