PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15875760
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["235", "385000"]

Abstract:
In some embodiments, methods and systems of locating overstock items at a retail sales facility include receiving an indication that a product at the retail sales facility is out of stock and determining whether the product is located on a sales floor or in the stock room at the retail sales facility; then, in response to a determination that the product is not located on the sales floor or in the stock room, tracking a location of the product based on at least one inventory management factor associated with the retail sales facility and at least one worker task event associated with the product; and outputting to a worker at the retail sales facility, based on the tracking of the location of the at least one product, an indication of a perceived location of the least one product.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for assisting in the locating of out of stock products at a retail sales facility, the method comprising:\n providing an inventory management database storing electronic data indicating at least one product that is offered for sale to consumers at a display location on a sales floor of the retail sales facility; receiving, an indication that at least one product is out of stock on the sales floor of the retail sales facility; determining, via an inventory management electronic device including a processor, and in response to querying the inventory management database via the inventory management electronic device to obtain inventory management data associated with the at least one product, that the inventory management data obtained via the inventory management electronic device from the inventory management database indicates that the at least one product is not located at the display location on the sales floor of the retail sales facility and is not located in a stock room of the retail sales facility; tracking, via the inventory management electronic device and the inventory management database, a location of the at least one product at the retail sales facility other than the display location and other than the stock room, based on analyzing, via the inventory management electronic device, at least one inventory management factor associated with the retail sales facility and at least one worker task event associated with the at least one product, the at least one management factor and the worker task event being stored in the inventory management database; and outputting, based on the tracking step and via the inventory management electronic device, an indication of a predicted location of the least one product at the retail sales facility other than the display location and other than the stock room, to a worker at the retail sales facility; wherein the at least one inventory management factor includes at least one of: mis-rings, shipping error, sales floor quantity versus shelf cap, change in on-hand inventory at the retail sales facility, bin accuracy, perpetual inventory accuracy, modular integrity, shrink, replenishment method, and pick completion; and wherein the at least one worker task event includes at least one of: time stamp of last sale of the at least one product, time stamp of last customer return of the at least one product, time stamp of last customer claim for the at least one product, time stamp of last binning or unbinning of the at least one product, time stamp of last feature set or unset of the at least one product, time stamp of last delivery of the at least one product, time stamp of last scan of the at least one product, time stamp of last price change of the at least one product, and time stamp of pick of the at least one product.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.60714
- Patent Class: 235.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15202897', '15203482', '15823934', '15490102', '15678450']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5795922604826955
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5337291042219108
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.575005944856617
- Mean Citation Score: 323.706012
- Max Citation Score: 388.57745
- Similarity Product: 358.61507953998154

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

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