PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15886750
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["700", "197000"]

Abstract:
Systems, methods, and software products estimate cost of fulfilling an order for non-existing steel parts. A web site interacts with a customer to receive a request for quote containing a single MTO file defining the non-existing steel parts. The single MTO file is processed to generate at least one layout based upon stock information of a raw steel product. The layout defines (a) nesting of the non-existing steel parts on the raw steel product, (b) a cost of cutting the parts from the raw steel product, (c) a used portion of the raw steel product, (d) a waste portion of the raw steel product, and (e) a remaining usable portion of the raw steel product. A quote estimating the cost of fulfilling the order is generated based upon the at least one layout, and the quote is sent to the customer.

Claim (Index 14):
A method of manufacturing and delivering to a customer previously non-existing metal parts comprising:\n quoting the cost of manufacturing and delivering the non-existing metal parts by a method comprising:\n receiving at a metals service center a request for quote (RFQ) containing a single material take-off (MTO) file, \n processing the single MTO file to determine the non-existing metal parts, \n allocating the non-existing metal parts to at least one metal processing machine, \n generating at least one layout of the non-existing metal parts on at least one raw product to quantify raw product required to produce the non-existing metal parts and looking up the quantified raw product in a price list to determine raw product costs, \n determining processing cost for cutting the non-existing metal parts from the at least one raw product by the at least one metal processing machine, \n determining remnant values of remnant produced by cutting the non-existing meal parts from the at least one raw product, \n determining scrap produced by cutting the non-existing metal parts from the at least one raw product, \n determining a handling cost of the at least one raw product, the non-existing metal parts, the remnants, and the scrap, \n determining a shipping cost of the non-existing metal parts to the customer, \n determining the cost to fulfill the order by adding at least the processing cost, handling cost, and raw product cost and subtracting the remnant values, and \n sending a quote containing the cost in response to receiving the RFQ; \n compiling at least one computer-aided manufacturing file adapted to be operable on the at least one metal processing machine from the MTO file; using the at least one metal processing machine and the at least one computer-aided manufacturing file to produce the metal parts; and shipping the produced metal parts to a customer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43284
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11789808', '09736555', '10151370', '13938113', '11074388']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3885644038875984
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4766038033884894
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3973683438376875
- Mean Citation Score: 154.83596
- Max Citation Score: 163.06375
- Similarity Product: 108.01417757235468

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