PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16381098
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["705", "007130"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus are provided for generating an enhanced transit schedule. Schedule deviations are calculated using an existing transit schedule. The schedule deviations are grouped in accordance with a plurality of schedule parameters. A group average deviation is computed for each group of schedule deviations. Each group average deviation is applied to a corresponding set of passing times of the existing transit schedule having corresponding schedule parameters to generate the enhanced transit schedule.

Claim (Index 20):
A method for providing an absolute time of arrival of a plurality of transit vehicles, comprising:\n operating a plurality of transit vehicles, each of the plurality of transit vehicles equipped with an automated vehicle location (AVL) system and equipped to track a GPS location of the transit vehicle; storing, in a shared FTP server located onboard each of the plurality of public transit vehicles, the GPS location of the transit vehicle, and communicating, from the shared FTP server, the GPS location of the transit vehicle to a central server comprising a processor, a memory, and a network connection; providing, with the central server, running time data comprising archived running times for each of the plurality of transit vehicles and archived schedules for each of the plurality of transit vehicles, to a schedule enhancer; generating, with the schedule enhancer, an enhanced transit schedule, wherein generating the enhanced transit schedule comprises:\n retrieving an existing transit schedule, the existing transit schedule comprising a plurality of entries, each of the plurality of entries comprising a plurality of schedule parameters, the plurality of schedule parameters including at least a route number, a direction, a stop, and scheduled passing time information; \n retrieving, from the central server, arrival time data comprising a plurality of archived running times for a particular transit vehicle; \n calculating, using the existing transit schedule and the arrival time data, schedule adherence data comprising a plurality of schedule deviations, each of the plurality of schedule deviations corresponding to a specific entry in the plurality of entries; \n storing the plurality of schedule deviations in a memory; \n grouping the plurality of schedule deviations into a plurality of groups, wherein grouping the plurality of schedule deviations into a plurality of groups comprises separating each of the plurality of schedule deviations into a group based on the numerical value of said schedule deviation, and wherein the plurality of groups comprises an on-time group of schedule deviations comprising schedule deviations that are substantially zero, an early group of schedule deviations comprising schedule deviations that are substantially negative, and a late group of schedule deviations comprising schedule deviations that are substantially positive; \n computing a plurality of group average deviations, each of the plurality of group average deviations corresponding to one of the plurality of groups of schedule deviations; \n computing a plurality of exponential weighted average deviations, each exponential weighted average deviation being computed from a plurality of group average deviations; \n generating a plurality of adjusted entries by adjusting the scheduled passing time information of each entry in the plurality of entries by said corresponding exponential weighted average distribution; and \n generating the enhanced transit schedule comprising a plurality of adjusted entries, and further comprising variance data, the enhanced transit schedule being fixed in value for one or more days; \n generating, with a scheduler comprising a passenger information system, predicted arrival times for the vehicle based on the enhanced transit schedule and the GPS location data; uploading said predicted arrival times to a Web server accessible by one or more passengers; and displaying, on a display, one or more elements of the enhanced transit schedule.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83721
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14511516', '11281843', '14883627', '14705685', '13467361']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.0873829220127371
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.471661565328767
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1258107863443401
- Mean Citation Score: 151.57175800000005
- Max Citation Score: 162.64842
- Similarity Product: 124.72470055546404

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

Dataset: test