PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15883780
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["702", "189000"]

Abstract:
A modeling framework for estimating crop growth and development over the course of an entire growing season generates a continuing profile of crop development from any point prior to and during a growing season until a crop maturity date is reached. The modeling framework applies extended range weather forecasts and remotely-sensed imagery to improve crop growth and development estimation, validation and projection. Output from the profile of crop development profile generates a combination of data for use in auxiliary farm management applications.

Claim (Index 1):
A method comprising:\n inputting a plurality of input data that includes crop-specific information, planting specifications, remotely-sensed imagery, and meteorological data that includes dynamical extended range weather forecast information, the dynamical extended range weather forecast information including a plurality of weather forecasts generated by independent sources, and covering a time period extending from a current day to a maturity date for a crop in a particular field; modeling the input data in a plurality of data processing modules within a computing environment in which the plurality of data processing modules are executed in conjunction with, and performed on, at least one computer processor, the data processing modules configured to profile crop development through to a maturity stage by modeling crop growth over the course of a crop growing season, the crop growth modeling including 1) applying a growing degree day model to historical and current weather information for a location of the particular field to generate a profile of past and present growth stages of the crop, 2) assessing the past and present growth stages of the crop on one or more dates by analyzing the remotely-sensed imagery of the crop captured on the one or more dates, 3) adjusting the profile of past and present growth stages based on assessments of the past and present growth stages on the one or more dates, and 4) generating a plurality of independent forecast profiles of further crop growth, starting from the current date and extending through to the time of crop maturity, by applying the plurality of dynamical extended range weather forecasts generated by independent sources in the growing degree day model; and applying the plurality of independent forecast profiles of further crop growth to identify ranges of future dates on which the crop will reach remaining crop growth stages in the crop growing season.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.56364
- Patent Class: 702.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14853593', '14463111', '15229968', '15883017', '15187963']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2053167911449868
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5743432884264235
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2422194408731305
- Mean Citation Score: 352.608634
- Max Citation Score: 455.5222
- Similarity Product: 430.8346101986647

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

Dataset: test