PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16001462
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["705", "005000"]

Abstract:
Virtualization methods and systems for optimizing the availability of items in an inventory of items in a reservation system. The items are classified into item types and an item type is defined by a requestable set of at least one characteristic. Reservations may be received for a set of at least one characteristic that is a subset of an item type. After a reservation has been accepted, all the availabilities of the requestable sets of at least one characteristic in the inventory are updated. The reservation system may be a hotel reservation system and item types may be hotel room types or other bookable products. The reservation system may be a flight reservation system and item types may be bookable places on flights.

Claim (Index 19):
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by a computing device for handling reservation requests corresponding to an inventory of items classified as a plurality of item types, each item having one of the plurality of item types, and each item type defined by a respective set of characteristics, cause the computing device to:\n obtain initial availabilities for (i) each set of characteristics, and (ii) each of a plurality of partial sets of characteristics, wherein each partial set of characteristics comprises fewer characteristics than a given set of characteristics that defines a particular item type, and wherein each partial set of characteristics corresponds to more than one of the plurality of the item types; obtain a record of existing reservations for (i) each set of characteristics, and (ii) each partial set of characteristics; based on the initial availabilities and the record of existing reservations, generate and store updated availabilities for (i) each set of characteristics, and (ii) each partial set of characteristics; receive, from a client computing device, a reservation request containing a selected subset of characteristics corresponding to one of the sets of characteristics, or one of the partial sets of characteristics; determine whether the reservation request can be accommodated based on the updated availabilities; responsive to accommodating the reservation request, update the record of existing reservations according to the reservation request, without allocating one of the items to the reservation request; and repeat the obtaining of initial availabilities, the obtaining of the record of existing reservations, and the generating and storing of updated availabilities.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.24138
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['09932263', '09487361', '12538403', '12644875', '09589037']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1235602011487086
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.494043205238279
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1606085015576657
- Mean Citation Score: 189.590318
- Max Citation Score: 218.03305
- Similarity Product: 149.00979803184268

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