PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16051081
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["700", "275000"]

Abstract:
Techniques are described for controlling distributed operations of devices, such as for devices that are each part of or otherwise associated with a mechanical system containing actuators to manipulate a surrounding environment and optionally further containing sensors to obtain information from the surrounding environment, and with such a device controlling the associated system to perform industrial operations. The described techniques may include identifying a group of multiple such devices to perform one or more assigned tasks, such as in a cooperative distributed manner with each device performing part of the assigned tasks, and/or in a competitive manner with some or all devices independently performing at least one assigned task. The performances of the devices may further be evaluated in various manners, and the devices selected to perform one or more tasks may be identified in various manners (including based at least in part on past performance evaluations).

Claim (Index 56):
A system comprising:\n a plurality of devices associated with multiple mechanical systems; one or more hardware processors of one or more computing systems; and one or more memories with stored instructions that, when executed by at least one of the one or more hardware processors, cause the system to perform automated operations including at least:\n performing, by multiple devices of the plurality of devices, and in response to received instructions, a specified task that modifies operations of at least one of the multiple mechanical systems; \n sending, to the one or more computing systems, information about results of the performing of the specified task for at least some of the multiple devices; and \n further modifying, by one or more of the multiple devices and in response to additional instructions received after the one or more devices are selected to further perform the specified task based at least in part on the sent information about the results, operations of one or more of the mechanical systems based on the specified task.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01282
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15809882', '15861524', '11537494', '14719161', '13171129']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3727580147902002
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4665939146493895
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3821416047761192
- Mean Citation Score: 135.578233
- Max Citation Score: 205.93996
- Similarity Product: 169.76298478960277

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