PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16059431
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["701", "300000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses are provided, some apparatuses comprise: a location controller separate from a motorized transport unit, comprising: a transceiver configured to receive communications from the motorized transport unit; a control circuit; a memory storing computer instructions that when executed by the control circuit cause the control circuit to perform the steps of: obtain, from the communications, a unique light source identifier of a light source detected by the motorized transport unit, and relative distance information determined by the motorized transport unit through an optical measurement; process the at least one unique light source identifier and the relative distance information relative to a mapping of the shopping facility; and determine, in response to the processing, a location of the motorized transport unit within the shopping facility as a function of the at least one unique light source identifier and the relative distance information.

Claim (Index 10):
A system providing control over movement of a motorized transport unit within a shopping facility, comprising:\n a self-propelled motorized transport unit within a shopping facility, wherein the motorized transport unit comprises:\n a light receiver unit configured to detect light from one or more external light sources of a plurality of separate light sources within a shopping facility and extract at least one unique light source identifier from the detected light, wherein the plurality of separate light sources are external to the motorized transport unit and distributed over one or more portions of the shopping facility, and each of the plurality of light sources is configured to illuminate a corresponding illumination area within the shopping facility; \n an on-board sensor system configured to detect additional sensor information; \n a control circuit; and \n a memory coupled to the control circuit and storing computer instructions that when executed by the control circuit cause the control circuit to control movement of the motorized transport unit as a function of a location of the motorized transport unit determined relative to a mapping of the shopping facility and based on the at least one light source identifier and the additional sensor information.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32353
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15061406', '15060953', '15061474', '15892250', '15061325']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4389706811070158
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5261285791381671
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4476864709101309
- Mean Citation Score: 300.50116
- Max Citation Score: 356.67877000000016
- Similarity Product: 328.6919969597228

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