PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16016373
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["235", "454000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses are provided to allow a customer to acquire product information from a scanning system. For example, in some embodiments, a method performed by a control circuit comprises establishing a wireless communication connection between a user's personal mobile device and a portable scanning system configured to optically scan identification codes of distinct products; wirelessly receiving at the mobile device product identifying information from the scanning system of each product scanned by the scanning system and available for purchase at the retail store; associating, at the mobile device, a plurality of the product identifying information received from the scanning system with each of a plurality of user specified product information locally accessible through the mobile device; and communicating from the mobile device to a checkout system, during a checkout process, the product identifying information received from the scanning system of each product scanned by the scanning system.

Claim (Index 8):
A method comprising:\n by a control circuit, establishing a wireless communication connection between a user's personal mobile device and a separate, portable scanning system associated with a retail store, wherein the scanning system is configured to optically scan identification codes of distinct products and obtain product identifying information based on the identification code of each product scanned; wirelessly receiving at the mobile device product identifying information from the scanning system of each product scanned by the scanning system and available for purchase at the retail store; incorporating at least some of the product identifying information into a virtual shopping cart based at least in part on the product identifying information; and communicating from the mobile device to a checkout system, during a checkout process, the product identifying information in the virtual shopping cart and received from the scanning system of each product scanned by the scanning system; wherein the establishing the short range wireless communication connection between the mobile device and the scanning system comprises: displaying, through a display of the mobile device, a unique identifier identifying at least the mobile device, wherein the unique identifier is configured to be optically scanned by the scanning system to temporarily and exclusively associate the scanning system with the mobile device; wirelessly receiving, from the scanning system and in response to the unique identifier being scanned, wireless communication information including a scanning system identifier; and establishing the wireless communication connection using the wireless communication information.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22222
- Patent Class: 235.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15517373', '12701462', '11305993', '13753448', '12966389']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5696155199884649
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4739169540566968
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5600456633952882
- Mean Citation Score: 176.70945999999995
- Max Citation Score: 260.83887000000004
- Similarity Product: 257.03109441173854

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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