PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15887149
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["701", "071000"]

Abstract:
A system for monitoring shopping carts or other human-propelled carts includes wireless access points that communicate on a wireless network with wheel assemblies of the carts. The system is capable of monitoring a path followed by a cart in a store or building, and using the path (optionally together with other criteria) to determine whether to authorize the cart to exit. For example, if a shopping cart fails to pass through a checkout lane of a store, the system may perform an action that blocks or inhibits the shipping cart from exiting the store.

Claim (Index 11):
A system, comprising:\n a wheel assembly configured to attach to a human-propelled cart, the wheel assembly comprising a wheel and comprising a wireless transceiver connected to a programmed controller, the wheel assembly programmed to communicate on a wireless network, and being uniquely addressable on the wireless network; an access point device configured to communicate wirelessly with the wheel assembly; and a network node programmed to track a path followed by the cart in a building based at least partly on wireless transmissions from the wheel assembly, and to determine, based at least partly on the path, whether to authorize the cart to exit the building; wherein the network node is programmed to cause the access point device to send, on the wireless network to the wheel assembly, a message that is dependent upon an outcome of the determination of whether to authorize the cart to exit the building, the message addressed to the wheel assembly.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.59375
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12202044', '13857006', '15877187', '14699221', '11277016']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5222256727171405
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5495779716880747
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5249609026142339
- Mean Citation Score: 412.543008
- Max Citation Score: 421.03683
- Similarity Product: 313.3956342275548

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

Dataset: test