PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15748591
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["705", "412000"]

Abstract:
Presented are methods and systems to universally assess composite utility consumption ( 1 ) in which a plurality of real-time and batch sensor readings such as from multiple disparate utility sensor data inputs ( 3 ) may be acquired and stored such as into a local device ( 2 ) or a central data warehouse ( 6 ). A composite utility estimated cost generator ( 9 ) can generate missing or uncorrelated data and a collected composite utility data information correlator ( 11 ) can correlate the data so it can be applied to determine some type of composite utility cost information. For real-time calculation, a disparate utility rate information accessor ( 8 ) can obtain multiple items of disparate rate information and this can use with correlated data to create a composite utility consumption and spend so a user can manage and control utility usage for a home, building, facility, plant, specific equipment, or the like. Cost information, such as a rate of spend or spend amount(s) to date or for a period may be presented to user in a variety of visualizations and reporting formats including specific time usage and spend information, specific time range usage and spend, and “time-of-use” billing information for specific real-time data points. The visualization and reporting may be used to answer a plurality of usage questions along with specific characterizations of utility spend across time of day domains and specific equipment usage domains thus affording more effective utility cost management.

Claim (Index 15):
A method of universally assessing composite utility consumption comprising the steps of:\n obtaining multiple disparate utility data inputs selected from a group consisting of: obtaining electrical voltage information for a utility; obtaining electrical current information for a utility; obtaining gas flow information for a utility; obtaining water flow information for a utility; and any combination of the above, all without limiting other aspects, wherein said step of obtaining multiple disparate utility data inputs comprises the step of utility-provider-independent sensing utility data for at least one utility; providing said multiple disparate utility data inputs to a unitary collection device; on-site locally collecting information from each of said multiple disparate utility data inputs at said unitary collection device; user setting a desired data collection frequency for all of said multiple disparate utility data inputs; generating approximate data to achieve said desired data collection frequency for at least one of said multiple disparate utility data inputs in response to said user setting said desired data collection frequency; automatically data-frequency correlating the information from each of said multiple disparate utility data inputs to achieve collected data frequency-correlated composite utility data information; transforming information from each of said multiple disparate utility data inputs to normalized utility data in a superset format that includes consumption information, consumption units, and time of measurement information; automatically determining desired utility rate information for multiple disparate utilities corresponding to each of said multiple disparate utility data inputs; automatically selecting resource locations at which said desired utility rate information can be accessed; downloading said desired utility rate information from said resource locations; storing said desired utility rate information to create a collection of disparate utility rate data; applying said disparate utility rate data to at least a portion of said collected composite utility data information; generating at least some estimated current rate of composite utility economic spend information for said user from said step of applying said disparate utility rate data to at least a portion of said collected data frequency-correlated composite utility data information; storing information developed from said step of generating at least some estimated current rate of composite utility economic spend information for later comparison; transforming at least some of said estimated current rate of composite utility economic spend information into an open, standardized data exchange format to create a disparate utility data, common exchange format utility data file; exporting said disparate utility data, common exchange format utility data file for subsequent use; and presenting said estimated current rate of composite utility economic spend information for visual display to a user.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14516
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12889465', '13679943', '13830919', '11867565', '10051542']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.0990973891570385
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4756423466023103
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1367518849015657
- Mean Citation Score: 138.871424
- Max Citation Score: 144.34865
- Similarity Product: 97.06059978371262

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

Dataset: test