PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15896921
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["705", "007120"]

Abstract:
A system and method for configuring an aggregation system across an aggregated chain of nodes, called a route. The aggregated chain includes an aggregator, provider participants, receiver participants, and the destination participant. Aggregation points can be allocated between entities or participants in the aggregated chain, such that the aggregator is: (i) able to increase the volume of business through the aggregated chain, (ii) ensure there are no weak links (provider participants) in the aggregated chain, (iii) ensure higher utilization of the aggregator's resources, and (iv) reward participants for their loyalty to the aggregated chain.

Claim (Index 1):
A computer-implemented method of configuring a one-to-many aggregation system across an aggregated chain of nodes to optimize utilization of resources of an aggregator, the method comprising the steps of:\n defining a plurality of interconnected electronic nodes of a route, the route including a source node, a plurality of intermediate nodes, and a destination node, in a network through which tangible assets or human-provided services utilizing tangible assets flow from the source node at a physical source location through the intermediate nodes and to the destination node at a physical or electronic destination location along an aggregated route, each of the nodes including an identity of the destination node and the physical destination location of the destination node, the network including a plurality of provider participants each of which provides a tangible asset or a service via the route on behalf of an aggregator of the one-to-many aggregation system, a plurality of receiver participants each of which receives the tangible asset or the service from a corresponding one of the provider participants, and a destination participant that receives the tangible asset or the service from one of the receiver participants, wherein the network includes the route, the aggregator, the receiver participants, and the destination participant collectively forming a hierarchy, wherein the provider participants and the aggregator are outside of the hierarchy; allocating to the aggregator a plurality of aggregation points in a pool; defining aggregation points transfer rules that allow aggregation points to be transferred from the following participants in the one-to-many aggregation system, the rules including:\n the aggregator can transfer any number of the aggregation points from the pool to any of the participants in the network, and \n any of the provider participants can transfer to any of the receiver participants only some or all of those aggregation points that the corresponding provider participants received from the aggregator; \n computing a usage factor associated with each of the provider participants based on (a) a number of points exchanged between the each of the provider participants and respective ones of the receiver participants and (b) a ratio of a number of times the provider participants have served the receiver participants to a total number of opportunities the provider participant had to service the receiver participants in a hierarchy; responsive to the usage factor associated with an underperforming one of the provider participants falling below a threshold, automatically deallocating the underperforming provider participant from the network such that the underperforming provider participant can no longer receive or exchange points in the pool in the hierarchy, thereby optimizing utilization of resources of the aggregator; and displaying on a graphical user interface a block board linked to a network layout of the network, the graphical user interface being configured to:\n allow selection of any of the nodes in the network, and \n portray respective contributions of the provider participants and the receiver participants at a node level for the route so that underperforming ones of the provider participants can be identified, those of the receiver participants with additional capacity to receive additional tangible assets or the service on the network can be identified, and those of the nodes where the network needs to be strengthened can be identified.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['09560032', '15290738', '15073330', '15894645', '10814090']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.0867961196168871
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.499509961336982
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1280675037888966
- Mean Citation Score: 174.02997800000003
- Max Citation Score: 199.68727
- Similarity Product: 129.1818723045373

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

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