PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15969640
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["705", "015000"]

Abstract:
The present invention includes methods and apparatus for the automated provision of goods through the use of scanning systems. More specifically, the present invention provides a method for automatically conveying which goods are being ordered, where the goods will be picked up, an associated method of payment, kitchen fulfillment, item tracking, and automatic delivery by a dispenser apparatus. In preferred embodiments, the present invention is applied to the automated ordering and pick-up of food items at a fast food restaurant.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of dispensing food items prepared for consumption by a customer, the method comprising the steps of:\n a) receiving programmable code for execution on a customer smart device; b) entering into the customer smart device an identification of the customer; c) entering into the customer smart device one or more preferred restaurant franchises; d) generating a geographic position of the customer smart device based upon global positioning coordinates; e) displaying a selected preferred restaurant on a screen on the customer smart device, the selected preferred restaurant comprising one of the preferred restaurant franchises; f) displaying a travel time to the selected preferred restaurant; g) displaying a travel path to the selected preferred restaurant; h) generating an order comprising food items and food preparation into a customer interface on the customer smart device; i) transmitting the order comprising food items and food preparation to the selected preferred restaurant; j) displaying on the customer smart device a direction of travel based upon the geographic position of the customer smart device and a geographic position of the selected preferred restaurant; k) transmitting payment information for an amount based upon the food items and food preparation; l) displaying a unique identifier associated with the order for food items and food preparation; m) conveying the unique identifier associated with the order for food items and food preparation to an automated dispenser; and n) based upon conveyance of the unique identifier and the transmitted payment information, causing the automated dispenser to dispense the order for food items prepared for consumption by a customer according to the order for food preparation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.52542
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15901393', '15799331', '11540945', '11603321', '14831858']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1161693607434019
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5515513724662037
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.159707561915682
- Mean Citation Score: 292.627026
- Max Citation Score: 419.41342
- Similarity Product: 301.5107933012485

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

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