PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15979102
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["455", "407000"]

Abstract:
A metering system for metering consumption of a commodity. The metering system enalbing mobility based prepaid solution and event notification for energy metering. The metering system comprising a prepaid metering device, a mobile device, and a head-end system. The mobile device includes a mobile application configured to communicate with the meter and the head-end system to monitor, diagnose, register, and add credit to the prepaid metering device. The mobile application provides an automated solution for managing prepaid metering devices.

Claim (Index 1):
A process for confirming installation of a prepaid metering device, the process comprising:\n prior to installation of the metering device, detecting a first status of the metering device through a wireless interface between a mobile device and the metering device, wherein the mobile device includes a mobile application that receives the first status of the metering device; determining a first condition of the metering device based on the first status; installing the metering device at a meter location; after installation of the metering device, detecting a second status of the metering device through the wireless interface between the mobile device and the metering device, wherein the mobile application receives the second status of the metering device; determining a second condition of the metering device based on the second status; and transmitting the second condition of the metering device to a utility head-end system via the mobile application.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11905
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14720211', '12848304', '14139157', '12952490', '13912252']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6639663457400546
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4692139632132557
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6444911074873747
- Mean Citation Score: 135.906606
- Max Citation Score: 144.41814
- Similarity Product: 103.75281541771886

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

Dataset: test