PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16007351
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["340", "572100"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for automatically tracking tools and managing tool inventory. Tools may be assigned to a work group or crew. Tools are tracked and monitored to determine whether the tools are with their assigned group, relocated to a different group, missing, or left behind at a job site. For relocated tools, the tool tracking system may identify and output the time and the group to which the tool has been relocated. For tools that are missing, the system may compute and output the group or crew, time, and location in the form of a street address, latitude, longitude, and/or map where the missing tool was last seen. The system may also send out real-time notifications (e.g., SMS text messages, emails, phone calls) to designated personnel so that an appropriate action can be taken. The tool tracking system also acts as an inventory management system for tools.

Claim (Index 19):
A computer-implemented method for tracking and monitoring tools, comprising:\n under the control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions,\n assigning a tool to a first group, the tool having a tool tag attached thereto that is operative to periodically transmit, via a wireless transceiver, a tool tag message comprising tool tag identification (ID) data for each respective tool tag; \n receiving tool tag messages from the tool tag at a location and acquisition/communication unit (LAU) via a short range transceiver; \n obtaining location information indicative of a present location of the LAU; \n associating the received tool tag messages with the location information; \n sending the tool tag messages and the associated location information from the LAU to a server computing device over a network; and \n determining a status of the tool using the tool tag messages and the associated location information, the status being indicative of whether the tool is located with the first group, whether the tool has been relocated to a group different than the first group, or whether the location of the tool is unknown.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92045
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13834370', '10782135', '11534966', '13609658', '12760139']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6437659239016699
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4815932351279394
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6275486550242968
- Mean Citation Score: 124.850934
- Max Citation Score: 133.50748000000002
- Similarity Product: 94.21550981048824

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

Dataset: test