PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16167426
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["700", "235000"]

Abstract:
Some embodiments are associated with wireless payment or account verification or authorization for purchases made from a vending machine via a customer's mobile device.

Claim (Index 1):
A vending machine configured to wirelessly validate payment of a customer, comprising:\n a processing device; a wireless receiver device in communication with the processing device; a network device in communication with the processing device; and a non-transitory memory device storing instructions that when executed by the processing device, result in:\n receiving, by the vending machine and from a customer, an indication of a service desired to be purchased by the customer from the vending machine; \n receiving, by the wireless receiver device of the vending machine and from a portable electronic device of the customer, a wireless signal indicative of an account identifier of the customer; \n transmitting, by the network device of the vending machine and in response to the receiving of the wireless signal, an indication of the account identifier of the customer to a remote network device; \n receiving, by the network device of the vending machine in response to the transmitting and from the remote network device, an indication that a payment, by the customer and for the desired service, is validated; and \n providing, by the vending machine and in response to the indication of the payment validation, the service to the customer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.08333
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15874256', '13365962', '11376488', '13857129', '13648978']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3584554449048715
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4723653983775615
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3698464402521405
- Mean Citation Score: 186.943354
- Max Citation Score: 246.5525
- Similarity Product: 242.7315071475506

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