PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15962263
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["705", "023000"]

Abstract:
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to maintain an inventory of products within a product carrier. The product carrier utilizes a radio frequency (RF) blocking material and a RF reader disposed within an interior of the product carrier to identify products placed therein. The product carrier can further include an indicator on an exterior thereof to provide an indication regarding a status of the products within the product carrier.

Claim (Index 1):
A self check-out system for a retail location, the system comprising:\n a product carrier having an exterior and a partially enclosed interior at least partially bounded by a radio frequency blocking material, the product carrier configured to be movable by a customer and receive products gathered by the customer while shopping; an electronic assembly of the product carrier, the electronic assembly comprising:\n a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag reader configured to reader RFID tags of products placed within the interior of the product carrier; \n a transceiver; \n an indicator disposed at least partially on the exterior of the product carrier; and \n a control circuit configured to:\n identify products placed in the product carrier interior based on data from the RFID tag reader; \n sync with a user communication device to maintain an inventory of the products in the product carrier interior and receive payment data therefrom; \n operate the indicator to provide a first indication on the exterior of the product carrier in response to determining that there are products that have not been paid for within the product carrier interior; \n operate the indicator to provide a second indication on the exterior of the product carrier in response to determining that all products within the product carrier interior have been paid for.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.61224
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15621284', '15812480', '15487728', '15882421', '13754713']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1022223599105698
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4612781203888489
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1381279359583977
- Mean Citation Score: 135.92798000000002
- Max Citation Score: 141.73994
- Similarity Product: 105.62923836852312

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

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