PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15965630
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["701", "417000"]

Abstract:
Aspects of the present disclosure include a navigation system and computer-implemented methods for proactively re-routing vehicles to control traffic flow. Consistent with some embodiments, the navigation system seeks to reduce traffic flow along primary navigation routes (e.g., routes with relatively short travel times) by re-routing vehicles to alternative navigation routes (e.g., routes with relatively longer travel times) using incentives. As an example, upon detecting a vehicle traveling along an alternative route instead of a primary route, the navigation system updates a data structure that represents a user account of a vehicle occupant to reflect an increased account balance. Consistent with some embodiments, the amount of value provided to an occupant of a vehicle traveling along an alternative routes may be obtained from user accounts of occupants of other vehicles that are traveling along a primary route.

Claim (Index 1):
A computer-implemented method comprising:\n identifying, based on location information obtained from a navigation-enabled device, a plurality of routes from a location of the navigation-enabled device to a destination location; selecting, from among the plurality of routes, a primary route to the destination location; detecting that the navigation-enabled device is traveling along an alternative route different from the primary route based on information received from the navigation-enabled device; in response to the detecting that the navigation-enabled device is traveling along the alternative route, updating a first entry in a first user account record associated with the navigation-enabled device, the first user account record being stored in a network accessible database, the updating of the first user account record including increasing a first current value in the first entry by a first value; and updating at least a second user account record associated with a vehicle traveling along the primary route, the updating of the second user account record including decreasing a second current value in a second entry in the second user account record by a second value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02703
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15651658', '14983000', '14983261', '14982945', '12122706']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4747069641704922
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5194208385265165
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4791783516060947
- Mean Citation Score: 300.43606
- Max Citation Score: 345.7915
- Similarity Product: 255.731647720784

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