PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15965609
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["340", "436000"]

Abstract:
With a method for detecting a contact event on the outer shell of a vehicle, wherein at least one structure-borne sound signal is detected by means of a structure-borne sound sensor, the detected structure-borne sound signal is evaluated by an evaluation device, and wherein the vehicle comprises a number of structure-borne sound sensors, it is provided as essential to the invention that each of the structure-borne sound sensors is associated with an area of the vehicle outer shell via a structure-borne sound conducting link, that an evaluation device is used to ascertain, by which of the structure-borne sound sensors respectively, a structure-borne sound signal has been detected, that conclusions are drawn from the association of the structure-borne sound sensors as to the area of the vehicle outer shell which has been touched, and that conclusions are drawn from the area of the vehicle shell which has been touched, as to the kind of underlying contact.

Claim (Index 5):
The method according to  claim 1 , if a contact is determined in case of a locked vehicle, a message is transmitted to a previously determined mobile phone.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.63492
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15016995', '15965370', '14995884', '14093324', '15069388']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6828591746544613
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5136223059321017
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6659354877822254
- Mean Citation Score: 164.152668
- Max Citation Score: 174.09122
- Similarity Product: 95.53233615998744

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