PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15901158
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["209", "629000"]

Abstract:
In a multi-stage sorting method, before a first sorting pass, containers can be placed with unsorted items in storage points of an empty store. Storage areas are determined for each pass. The areas are arranged orthogonal to one another. The containers are arbitrarily distributed within an area. In each sorting pass, one container from each area is retrieved as part of a batch group. The retrieval sequence is arbitrary in the first pass, and uses a sorting algorithm in subsequent passes. The degree of sorting of the mail items in the containers is increased in a sorting operation, storing positions are empty points generated by the retrieval or storage points with empty containers corresponding to a retrieval position, and the storing sequence is on a process-contingent random basis corresponding to an emptying of sorting end points. These process steps are repeated for as many batches as necessary to process a total volume of items.

Claim (Index 1):
A multi-stage sorting process, the method comprising:\n providing a multitude of storage containers, a container store, and a multitude of storage points at said container store; before a first sorting pass, placing storage containers with unsorted sorting items in any desired storage points of an empty store is possible; determining storage areas for each sorting pass according to location and size, the storage areas generally having their arrangement directions orthogonal to one another; arbitrarily distributing the containers within a storage area is possible; in each sorting pass, retrieving generally one container from each storage area as part of a batch group, where retrieving positions are either randomly distributed over all storage areas or sequentially along the arrangement direction of the storage areas, with a retrieval sequence which can be arbitrary in a first sorting pass, and being conditioned by a sorting algorithm in subsequent sorting passes;\n increasing a degree of sorting of the sorting items in the containers with sorting items in a sorting operation, where storing positions are empty points generated by the retrieval or storage points with empty containers corresponding to one of the retrieval positions, and the storing sequence is on a process-contingent random basis corresponding to an emptying of sorting end points; and \n repeating the retrieving and storing of container steps for as many batch groups as are required for the processing of a total volume of sorting items in the respective sorting pass.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0241
- Patent Class: 209.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12677720', '13909782', '10547924', '10545377', '10089554']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5965499728479753
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4862129628999515
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5855162718531729
- Mean Citation Score: 182.80494
- Max Citation Score: 189.52505
- Similarity Product: 137.02767113006414

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