PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15920037
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["700", "282000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed is a control system for a water network. The control system includes a plurality of remotely-located monitoring and or monitoring and automatic control stations each including an automation controller for local control and automation, and each in communication via a dual-ring communication topology for system or wide-area control. The dual-ring facilitates redundant peer-to-peer data exchange to provide upstream and downstream water flow and water quality information. Systems described herein may calculate flow differential based on water flow data from each of the monitoring stations, and control flow based on the calculated flow differential.

Claim (Index 24):
A water flow control system, comprising:\n a flow control station including:\n a control automation controller, and \n a control communications device with a plurality of communication ports to facilitate communication via at least a peer-to-peer communication protocol and a server-client communication protocol; \n a first flow monitoring station including:\n a first station communications device with a plurality of communication ports to facilitate communication via at least the peer-to-peer communication protocol and the server-client communication protocol, \n a first flow sensor to measure water flow within a first water channel and transmit flow data to the flow control station via the first station communications device, and \n a first adjustable water flow control device to control water flow within the first water channel based on control signals received from the flow control station; \n a second flow monitoring station including:\n a second station communications device with a plurality of communication ports to facilitate communication via at least the peer-to-peer communication protocol and the server-client communication protocol, \n a second flow sensor to measure water flow within a second water channel and transmit flow data to the flow control station via the second station communications device, and \n a second adjustable water flow control device to control water flow within the second water channel based on control signals received from the flow control station; and \n a dual-ring communications network providing redundant communication channels for peer-to-peer and centralized server-client communications comprising:\n peer-to-peer communications channels operating in a ring topology to facilitate bi-directional peer-to-peer communication between each of the control communications device, the first station communications device, and the second station communications device, and \n server-client communications channels facilitating server-client communication from the control communication device to each of the first station communications device and the second station communications device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81818
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14265018', '15219932', '14634014', '13831772', '14561271']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3298791002123775
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4608349050863339
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3429746806997732
- Mean Citation Score: 109.7304264
- Max Citation Score: 125.105316
- Similarity Product: 92.24758131353904

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test