PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16157490
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["235", "375000"]

Abstract:
System and method for collecting object identification data from a plurality of objects that interact with a vehicle during operation of the vehicle, where the vehicle interacts with specific objects at specific geographical positions. An identification sensor is coupled to a geographical position sensor, and whenever an object is identified a record is generated, the record including the identification of the object, the position of the vehicle when the interaction between the object and the vehicle occurs, and the time of the interaction. Exemplary objects include passengers, containers, and documents. Exemplary interactions include loading/unloading an object from the vehicle, boarding a passenger, unloading a passenger, transferring a bulk material from the vehicle into a specific container, and/or transferring a bulk material from a specific container to the vehicle. The record may also include additional data about a parameter of the object (such as the object's weight, volume, or temperature).

Claim (Index 1):
A method for generating object identification (ID) encoded position data from a refuse collection truck servicing a set of refuse containers, having a pair of loading arms for emptying a refuse container into a truck refuse storage volume, the refuse collection truck being equipped with a geographical position system, the method comprising the steps of:\n (a) collecting geographical position data from the refuse collection truck during refuse collection truck operation, the geographical position data being time indexed; (b) collecting object ID data from the refuse containers, the object ID data uniquely identifying each of the refuse containers and being readable in association to each of said refuse holding containers, wherein the step of collecting object ID data from a refuse container comprises at least one of the following steps:\n (i.) using an identification sensor attached to the loading arms that are used to empty refuse containers into the refuse collection truck, to read the object ID; and \n (ii.) scanning the object ID using a handheld device including an identification sensor and a wireless data link, the handheld device being configured to wirelessly transmit object ID data to a processor disposed in the refuse collection truck, the processor being configured to combine the object ID data with the position data; and \n (c) automatically combining the object ID data, identifying the object, and the geographical position data together at the refuse collection truck to produce object ID encoded position data, and thereby creating a record of refuse transfer with of each one of the set of refuse holding containers, that includes object ID, uniquely identifying the refuse holding container, the geographical position of the truck at the time the refuse transfer was made, and time indexing, indicating the time of refuse container identification, contemporaneous with the refuse transfer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23684
- Patent Class: 235.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15083208', '15980548', '15679435', '16025836', '11425222']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6373337978072205
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5286128777073332
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6264617057972318
- Mean Citation Score: 318.117212
- Max Citation Score: 401.3676
- Similarity Product: 318.3255045717716

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

Dataset: test