PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15772447
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["700", "012000"]

Abstract:
A configuration system and method for process automation configured to access structural process diagrams representing process components. Each process component includes interconnections between process components. Each interconnection represents a physical connection. The system has at least one processor configured to generate corresponding process object instances for process components wherein a particular component type defines at least an interlock property and/or an operating condition.

Claim (Index 16):
A configuration system for a process automation system, comprising:\n an interface component configured to access one or more structural process diagrams (PID 1 ) wherein a particular diagram (PID 1 ) includes a plurality of process component symbols (V 1  to V 4 , P 1 , FIC 1 ) representing process components (PCV 1  to PCV 4 , PCP 1 , PCFIC 1 ) under control of the automation system, each process component symbol being associated with a corresponding process component type, and wherein the particular diagram (PID 1 ) further includes interconnections (I 1  to I 4 ) between the process component symbols, each interconnection representing a physical connection between respective process components; and at least one processor configured to: for at least a subset of the plurality of process component symbols, generate a plurality of corresponding process object instances with the corresponding process component types wherein a particular component type defines at least an interlock property and/or an operating condition in an interface of the corresponding process object instance, wherein both are of a Boolean type and the interlock property of a particular selected process object instance leads to a switch off state of the particular process component and an operating condition of the particular process component prevents a switch on state so that interlock values of other process components force the particular process component to be switched off and operating condition values of other process components allow the particular process component to be switched on; for a particular process object instance representing a particular process component:\n discover, by using the interconnections (I 1 , I 2 , I 3  . . . ) of the diagram (PID 1 ), one or more further process object instances which represent process components that are physically connected with the particular process component; \n query the interfaces of the discovered further process object instances and generate a list of process object instances including the discovered process object instances which have an interlock property and/or an operating condition that is relevant for the particular process object instance by having an output that may directly affect an input of the particular process component or an output that may directly affect an input of the particular process component and where an interlock property is relevant for an operating condition of the particular process object instance; \n obtain a selection of one or more listed process object instances including checking whether there is a match of the respective interfaces so that a dependency between the process object instances can be automatically derived; and \n connect the interfaces of one or more of the selected process object instances with the interface of the particular process object instance, accordingly, wherein the corresponding inputs and outputs of the corresponding process object instance interfaces are connected to enable the exchange of corresponding control signals.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.45652
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12539399', '12242409', '13526856', '12242346', '10980973']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3344705319531559
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4700928756684983
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3480327663246901
- Mean Citation Score: 126.2613372
- Max Citation Score: 131.53761
- Similarity Product: 91.68083957415104

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

Dataset: test