PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15895485
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["382", "103000"]

Abstract:
An asset management system automatically generates and updates tool data stored in and used by the system for determining the presence or absence of tools or other inventory objects in the systems. The tool data can be automatically generated when a tool is newly added to the automated asset management system, and can be updated if and when characteristics of the tool and/or automated asset management system change. The automatic generation and updating includes automatically recognizing unique identifiers of tags located on inventory objects, automatically identifying an inventory object to associate with each unique identifier, and automatically populating a database to store each unique identifier in association with stored data for the corresponding inventory object.

Claim (Index 1):
An automated asset management system comprising:\n a plurality of storage locations for storing objects; an image-based sensing system configured to generate images used to determine presence or absence of objects configured to be stored in the plurality of storage locations; a database storing data relating to the objects configured to be stored in the plurality of storage locations, wherein the database stores data sufficient to enable the asset management system to determine the presence or absence of the objects from the storage locations based on the images generated by the image-based sensing system; a processor; and a non-transitory machine readable recording medium storing program instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform a tool training process for automatically storing in the database a unique identifier encoded on a tag of an object by:\n performing using the image-based sensing system a first scan of the storage locations while a particular storage location associated with a particular object subject to the tool training is empty, and storing an image attribute of the particular storage location while the particular storage location is empty, \n performing using the image-based sensing system a second scan of the storage locations while the particular storage location associated with the particular object subject to the tool training is occupied by the particular object, and storing an image attribute of the particular storage location while the particular object is present, \n determining, based on an image captured during the second scan, whether a tag encoding a unique identifier is present on the particular object, and \n updating the database storing data relating to the objects configured to be stored in the plurality of storage locations of the asset management system to include, in association with stored data relating to the particular object, the unique identifier of the tag determined to be present on the particular object.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83333
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15097802', '15681964', '14464479', '13916245', '12538100']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3459924155007906
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.512235365306767
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3626167104813882
- Mean Citation Score: 271.40075
- Max Citation Score: 322.07947
- Similarity Product: 280.6608944150031

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