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 1):
A tool tracking system for tracking a tool, comprising:\n a tool tag attachable to a tool and comprising a wireless transceiver configured for short range wireless communication, the tool tag configured to periodically transmit, via the wireless transceiver, a tool tag message comprising a tool tag identification (ID); a location and acquisition/communication unit (LAU) and a location determination device, the LAU being positionable at a location within range of the wireless transceiver of the tool tag, the LAU being configured to receive the tool tag message from the tool tag transceiver, and further configured to obtain location data from the location determination device and to associate the obtained location data with the received tool tag message, the LAU being further configured to send the tool tag message and the associated location data via a network; and a server computing device coupled to the network and operative to receive the tool tag message and the associated location data from the LAU using the server network interface to track the location of the tool to which the tool tag is attached, the server computing device further comprising an association module configured to assign the tool with the tool tag attached thereto to a first group.

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): 0.6404001387221628
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4950709813251164
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6258672229824582
- Mean Citation Score: 124.850934
- Max Citation Score: 133.50748000000002
- Similarity Product: 84.49460814861776

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