PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15955874
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["701", "036000"]

Abstract:
A computer-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product controls a driving mode of a self-driving vehicle (SDV). One or more processors compare a control processor competence level of an on-board SDV control processor in controlling the SDV to a human driver competence level of a human driver in controlling the SDV while the SDV encounters a current roadway condition which is a result of current weather conditions of the roadway on which the SDV is currently traveling. One or more processors then selectively assign control of the SDV to the SDV control processor or to the human driver while the SDV encounters the current roadway condition based on which of the control processor competence level and the human driver competence level is relatively higher to one another.

Claim (Index 20):
A computer system comprising:\n a processor, a computer readable memory, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium; first program instructions to determine a control processor competence level of a self-driving vehicle (SDV) control processor, wherein the control processor competence level describes a competence level of the SDV control processor in controlling a SDV while the SDV encounters a current roadway condition of a roadway on which the SDV is currently traveling, wherein the current roadway condition is a result of current lighting conditions of the roadway on which the SDV is currently traveling; second program instructions to receive a driver profile of a human driver of the SDV, wherein the driver profile describes a human driver competence level of the human driver in manually controlling the SDV while the SDV encounters the current roadway condition; third program instructions to compare the control processor competence level to the human driver competence level; and fourth program instructions to selectively assign control of the SDV to the SDV control processor or to the human driver while the SDV encounters the current roadway condition based on which of the control processor competence level and the human driver competence level is relatively higher to one another; and wherein the first, second, third, and fourth program instructions are stored on the non-transitory computer readable storage medium for execution by one or more processors via the computer readable memory.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27119
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14865393', '15341225', '14820620', '14883708', '15790193']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4789325790338422
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5540349350949472
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4864428146399526
- Mean Citation Score: 389.77762
- Max Citation Score: 427.33707
- Similarity Product: 365.70035604736086

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