PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16108204
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["700", "248000"]

Abstract:
A system and method is disclosed for configuring a group of mobile field devices using a configuration device (an HMI) is provided. In particular, the HMI is programmed to configure identically programmed field devices that are arbitrarily arranged in an application-dependent formation by defining and providing configuration parameters to the devices via wired and/or wireless communication. In particular, the HMI assigns a unique identifier to respective robots as a function of the position of the robot within the formation or the layout of the environment. Accordingly each robot can be efficiently configured by the HMI to operate independently yet as a coordinated member of the group and without requiring the robots to be placed in specific positions during the initial deployment. This obviates the need for constant independent control commands for each robot by a central controller or providing a customized control program to each robot during deployment.

Claim (Index 33):
The method of  claim 13 , further comprising:\n replacing, a particular field device among the plurality of field devices with a replacement field device; determining, with the HMI, a particular respective device ID assigned to the particular field device being replaced; and repeating the steps of:\n positioning the HMI and a replacement field device in proximity, \n establishing, by the HMI using the transceiver, wireless communication between the HMI and the replacement field device, \n automatically defining, by the HMI, configuration settings for the replacement field device including at least the particular respective device ID, and \n transferring, by the HMI using the wireless transceiver, the configuration settings to the replacement field device to configure the replacement field device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.74444
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15240530', '14370383', '15124426', '15320310', '10392747']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3522387927870239
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5423969534143943
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3712546088497609
- Mean Citation Score: 190.039916
- Max Citation Score: 408.82492
- Similarity Product: 340.00670892618666

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

Dataset: test