PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15960680
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["705", "028000"]

Abstract:
Systems, methods and computer-readable media for providing e-commerce suppliers an alternative shipping and distribution system based on real-time sales and demand being coupled with iterative machine learning processes. As an example, an e-commerce supplier can contract with a retailer to have products sold in retail locations belonging to the retailer. However, rather than the retailer providing to the e-commerce supplier a quoted price for acquiring the merchandise, the retailer can provide two prices: one for if the e-commerce supplier delivers the merchandise to a distribution center, and another if the e-commerce supplier delivers the merchandise directly to a retail location, from which the retailer will redistribute the merchandise to other retail locations.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for providing third party suppliers multiple price costs for distributing a product from distinct points of distribution, the method comprising:\n receiving, at a server, historical sales data associated with a third party e-commerce product; applying a machine learning algorithm to the historical sales data, to yield a predicted demand quantity for the third party e-commerce product at a plurality of retail locations, wherein the machine learning algorithm is updated on a periodic basis; receiving an offer for the predicted demand quantity of the third party e-commerce product from a third party supplier; calculating, using a processor of the server, a first shipping cost for receiving the predicted demand quantity from the third party supplier at a single retail location in the plurality of retail locations; subsequently redistributing the predicted demand quantity from the single retail location to remaining retail locations in the plurality of retail locations; calculating, using the processor, a second shipping cost for receiving the predicted demand quantity from the third party supplier at a distribution center and redistributing the predicted demand quantity to remaining retail locations in the plurality of retails locations; and transmitting, in response to the offer, the first shipping cost and the second shipping cost to the third party supplier.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 42.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8209
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12778228', '09920592', '15199205', '12496884', '14050104']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1150358902353155
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4786404936218563
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1513963505739696
- Mean Citation Score: 207.263964
- Max Citation Score: 221.22772
- Similarity Product: 175.8910733597541

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

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