PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16026612
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["235", "375000"]

Abstract:
In one implementation, a processor: (1) receives an image of a candidate mark from an image acquisition device, (2) uses the image to measure one or more characteristics at a plurality of locations on the candidate mark, resulting in a first set of metrics, (3) removes, from the first set of metrics, a metric having a dominant amplitude, resulting in a trimmed first set of metrics, (4) retrieves, from a computer-readable memory, a second set of metrics that represents one or more characteristics measured at a plurality of locations on an original mark, (5) removes, from the second set of metrics, a metric corresponding to the metric removed from the first set of metrics, resulting in a trimmed second set of metrics, (6) compares the trimmed first set of metrics with the trimmed second set of metrics, and (7) determines whether the candidate mark is genuine based on the comparison.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for encoding, storing, and retrieving an electronic signature of a barcode, the method comprising:\n a first computer system optically capturing an image of an original barcode; the first computer system reducing the captured image of the original barcode to a signature by\n extracting one or more optical or physical characteristics of the original barcode at a plurality of locations on the original barcode; \n encoding the one or more optical or physical characteristics of the original barcode into a verification metric data set for the original barcode; \n the first computer system storing the signature of the original barcode in a database on a network storage; a second computer system retrieving the signature of the original barcode from the database; the second computer system optically capturing an image of a candidate barcode; the second computer system reducing the captured image of the candidate barcode to a signature by\n extracting one or more optical or physical characteristics of the candidate barcode at a plurality of locations on the candidate barcode, \n wherein optical or physical characteristics extracted from the candidate barcode by the second computer system are taken from the same locations from which the first computer system extracted optical or physical characteristics from the original barcode; \n trimming the optical or physical characteristics extracted from the candidate barcode by removing one or more dominant optical or physical characteristics; \n encoding the trimmed optical or physical characteristics of the original barcode into a verification metric data set for the original barcode; \n the second computer system retrieving the signature of the original barcode from the network storage; the second computer system removing the same optical or physical characteristics from the original barcode as were removed from the candidate barcode; the second computer system verifying the candidate bar code based on a comparison between the signature of the original barcode and the signature of the candidate barcode; the second computer system transmitting a message indicating a result of the verifying step.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.71642
- Patent Class: 235.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15457380', '15374729', '15491523', '14623925', '13782233']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.573016562276929
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.492293697100204
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5649442757592565
- Mean Citation Score: 208.555332
- Max Citation Score: 237.25012
- Similarity Product: 159.17773470320464

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