PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15874825
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["700", "291000"]

Abstract:
The invention is related to the field of regulating energy consumption of a group of energy consumers serviced by utility companies, especially during peak demand periods. The invention teaches a novel way to incentivize consumers to manage electric loads during peak hours and use those loads during off-peak hours, thereby saving both consumers and utility companies money, while also conserving valuable energy producing resources. The invention utilizes hardware that may be used remotely to both monitor and turn on or off energy on or to a premises or load.

Claim (Index 26):
A method of managing energy consumption comprising:\n identifying an amount of load reduction needed to reduce a peak load to a desired level; identifying consumers with one or more loads contributing to the peak load; identifying loads of consumers flagged for participation in a load reduction process; shutting off, decreasing, and/or otherwise managing power supply to the loads flagged for participation for a period of time; determining the remaining amount of load reduction needed from the difference between the amount of load reduction needed to reduce the peak load to the desired level and the amount of the loads flagged for participation in the load reduction process; if additional load reduction is needed, identifying one or more additional loads of the consumers capable of enrolling in the load reduction process; selecting one or more of the additional loads for participation in the load reduction process by aggregating the one or more additional loads in a manner to equal or exceed the difference between the amount of load reduction needed to reduce the peak load to the desired level and the amount of the loads flagged for participation in the load reduction process; notifying consumers with the one or more additional loads selected for participation in the load reduction process; and shutting off, decreasing, and/or otherwise managing power supply to the one or more additional loads for a period of time to meet or exceed the amount of load reduction needed to reduce the peak load to the desired level, upon acceptance by the consumer to participate in the load reduction process.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.55738
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15043334', '14575265', '13080541', '14575304', '12117638']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4136070276719882
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.475704778485122
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4198168027533016
- Mean Citation Score: 179.25870400000005
- Max Citation Score: 193.01056
- Similarity Product: 138.1941843983841

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

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