PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15925651
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["340", "870110"]

Abstract:
Given a node of a utility service distribution network, a topology of a subset of the distribution network having the given node as a root node and one or more child nodes branching from the given node is determined. The topology may be determined based on relationships or correlations of utility usage information between the given node and a plurality of potential nodes that are considered in the topology determination. Upon determining the topology associated with the given node, the determined topology may be used to detect fraud and leakage that may occur in the distribution network on a regular basis or upon request. If fraud or leakage is detected in the distribution network, the system may schedule a follow-up and/or field investigation to investigate and fix the fraud or the leakage in the distribution network.

Claim (Index 40):
One or more non-transitory computer readable media storing executable instructions that, when executed by a processing unit of an electricity meter, configure the electricity meter to perform acts comprising:\n receiving, at the electricity meter, a trigger to determine a physical power distribution topology of at least a portion of a utility network associated with a given utility metering node; identifying, at the electricity meter, one or more other utility metering nodes potentially connected to the given utility metering node based, at least in part, on location information or communication network information of the given utility metering node and the one or more other utility metering nodes; correlating, by the electricity meter, value changes indicating a change in amount of utility consumption associated with the given utility metering node and value changes indicating a change in amount of utility consumption associated with the one or more other utility metering nodes with respect to a physical quantity; and determining, at the electricity meter, the physical power distribution topology of at least the portion of the utility network comprising the given utility metering node and at least one node of the one or more other utility metering nodes based at least in part on the correlating of value changes that indicate the change in amount of utility consumption associated with the given utility metering node and the value changes indicating the change in amount of utility consumption associated with the one or more other utility metering nodes.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 110.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10294
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11838185', '12721948', '11104155', '13898570', '12851830']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7277772456094082
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4636683517303167
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.701366356221499
- Mean Citation Score: 135.10078400000003
- Max Citation Score: 158.54856999999996
- Similarity Product: 127.62842470634637

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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