PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15933578
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["455", "456000"]

Abstract:
Improved approaches for monitoring status of articles being shipped are disclosed. The monitoring can produce notifications to interested parties. The notifications typically contain status information pertaining to the articles being shipped. Alternatively, interested parties can gain access to status information pertaining to the articles being shipped via a website. According to one embodiment, the status information includes at least position (location) information and shipping conditions information.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for tracking shipment of a plurality of packages, said apparatus comprising:\n a storage device to store at least computer program code; and at least one processor to perform at least some of the stored computer program code, the at least one processor performing at least some of the stored computer program code to track shipment of the plurality of packages, the stored computer program code includes at least:\n computer program code for receiving status information associated with a package during shipment, the status information being provided by a mobile electronic device in or attached to the package, the status information including at least position information and environmental information, and the environmental information being related to environmental conditions of or around the package being shipped; \n computer program code for determining whether a notification condition pertaining to the package exists based on the status information and at least one notification criterion; \n computer program code for producing a notification message when the notification condition exists; and \n computer program code for initiating electronically sending the notification message to an interested user, and \n wherein the notification condition is determined to exist if the environmental information includes at least one environmental condition that exceeds a predetermined threshold, and wherein the mobile electronic device is configured to induce or influence activation of a mechanical system, dependent at least in part on the status information.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.70455
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13802641', '12924470', '10397637', '11732581', '13173925']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7010772493977461
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4954595545179059
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6805154799097621
- Mean Citation Score: 242.62995600000005
- Max Citation Score: 271.2388
- Similarity Product: 219.5053494315385

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