PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16161449
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["705", "007240"]

Abstract:
Disclosed is an employee vacation scheduling system for enabling an employee to purchase vacation travel services on the basis of the availability of the paid leaves thereof. The vacation scheduling system comprises a database comprising a plurality of employees wherein, each employee is associated with the number of paid leaves the employee is entitled to. The scheduling system further comprises a store module for enabling an employee to purchase a vacation travel service that spans a predetermined number of vacation days, a date module for enabling the employee, in the process of purchasing the vacation travel service, to mark successive vacation dates for the utilization of the vacation travel service, and a payment module for enabling the employee to pay for the vacation travel service upon determining that the number of vacation days are lesser than or equivalent

Claim (Index 32):
An employee vacation scheduling method comprising:\n (a) providing an employee database comprising a plurality of employee entries and a plurality of non-working calendar dates wherein, each employee entry represents an employee working for an employer and wherein, each non-working date represents a non-working day, which comprises a day whereon an employee is exempted from working, each employee entry associated with at least one employee paid-leave-deposit-rate, a number of used paid leaves, and a number of carried-over paid leaves wherein, a paid-leave-deposit-rate represents the number of paid leaves allotted to an employee per a predetermined length of time within a current calendar year, the sum of each predetermined length of time pertaining to each of the at least one paid-leave-deposit-rate being equivalent to the time span of the current calendar year, wherein, a used paid leave represents a paid leave utilized by an employee, and wherein, a carried-over paid leave represents an unused paid leave of an employee that is carried over from a previous calendar year or years; (b) providing a store module for enabling an employee to purchase a vacation travel service out of a plurality of vacation travel services, a vacation travel service spanning a predetermined number of vacation days, the store module comprising:\n (i) a date module for enabling the employee, in the process of purchasing the vacation travel service, to mark successive vacation dates for the utilization of the vacation travel service, the vacation dates comprising an end vacation date representing the last day of the utilization of a vacation travel service; and \n (ii) a payment module for enabling the employee to pay for the vacation travel service upon determining that the number of vacation days, which pertain to the vacation dates and which exclude the non-working days, are lesser than or equivalent to the sum of the number of paid leaves that the employee will be have by the end vacation date as determined from the at least one paid-leave-deposit-rate corresponding to the employee and the number of carried-over paid leaves subtracted by the number of used paid leaves; and \n (d) providing a conversion module for converting a currently available paid leave of the employee into equivalent monetary value, upon conversion, the vacation money associated with the corresponding employee entry, the vacation money to be used towards the purchase of a vacation travel services or other products and services.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 86.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33871
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13856312', '14628234', '13013955', '13644718', '13902153']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.0994005567034198
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6586447798952842
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1553249790226062
- Mean Citation Score: 360.344058
- Max Citation Score: 645.6346
- Similarity Product: 611.9111034151314

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