PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15867373
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["700", "216000"]

Abstract:
A system and method for managing a plurality of automated mobile robots within automated mobile robot storage and retrieval system is provided, which repurposes one or more automated mobile robots operating within the automated inventory management system to perform a plurality of tasks across multiple different areas of an automated store. The same mobile robot is enabled to move horizontally and vertically in a multi-level storage structure, operate in an order fulfillment mode retrieving order totes from an automated fulfillment section and delivering the order totes to the delivery section, operate in a replenishment mode receiving eaches of goods and depositing the eaches of goods in designated storage totes, and operate in a delivery mode receiving delivery bundles and transporting the delivery bundles to designated locations at the transfer station.

Claim (Index 32):
An automated store, comprising:\n a building structure comprising:\n a replenishment section wherein the automated store is replenished with product totes containing new inventory eaches; \n an automated fulfillment section wherein eaches are transferred from product totes to order totes at workstations to fulfill orders from customers; and \n a delivery section wherein order totes filled at the automated fulfillment section are made available for delivery to the customers; and \n a mobile robot configured to move throughout replenishment section, the automated fulfillment section and the delivery section in different modes of operation based on task priority, the different modes of operation comprising a replenishment mode, an order fulfillment mode and a delivery mode; wherein, in the replenishment, order fulfillment and delivery modes, the mobile robot is configured to: transport received product totes product totes into storage; transport the product totes to the workstations, and to transport the order totes to the workstations and the delivery section; and transport order totes to a location in the delivery section to make the order totes available for delivery to the customers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 37.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97101
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15171802', '15421239', '14808235', '14479908', '15863050']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4404968456310723
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4826967194459899
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4447168330125641
- Mean Citation Score: 231.055188
- Max Citation Score: 252.95872000000003
- Similarity Product: 208.46532105529784

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

Dataset: test