PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15743269
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["473", "199000"]

Abstract:
A ball game apparatus in which movements of a coded ball ( 20 ) are detected by detector units ( 100, 206 ) and an automatic indication of a player's score is given, where data relating to the ball ( 20 ) are stored in a database connected to the detector units ( 100, 206 ), the data including the code of a ball ( 20 ) and a code relating to a player to whom the ball ( 20 ) has been allocated, the ball ( 20 ) being configured to temporarily store, and to intermittently transfer to the detector units ( 100, 206 ) and thence to the database, data relating to the ball's movements. A rechargeable battery ( 40 ) is contained within the ball ( 20 ), and is arranged to be charged by a battery charging system. Features of the game may be controlled by means of a player's mobile telephone.

Claim (Index 35):
A method of operating a golf facility, including a ball game apparatus according to claim  1  and a plurality of coded balls and comprising one or more of the following steps:\n (i) charging the batteries within the balls before a game; \n (ii) reading data from the balls at the start of a game; \n (iii) switching on the balls at the start of a game; \n (iv) varying the power of communication from the beacons to the balls and from the balls to the beacons depending upon the position of the balls; \n (v) recording golf shots with video cameras and replaying them on one or more video display screens; \n (vi) reading data from the balls at the end of a game; \n (vii) switching off the balls at the end of a game; \n (viii) influencing parts of the apparatus by means of an application on a player's mobile telephone; \n (ix) erasing data from a ball if it is removed from the facility.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51471
- Patent Class: 473.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14395024', '15462628', '15828255', '13031862', '14546407']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6225864524802042
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4803772134467126
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.608365528576855
- Mean Citation Score: 196.265796
- Max Citation Score: 210.599
- Similarity Product: 158.85854093134404

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

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