PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16149689
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["700", "236000"]

Abstract:
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for optimizing performance of a product dispenser are provided herein. Depending on the circumstances surrounding the product dispenser (e.g., the environment, the type or habits of users or individual users, etc.), initial dispensing parameter settings of the product dispenser may be undesirable. Using monitored usage data, optimized dispensing parameters can be determined to achieve more desirable usage of the product dispenser (e.g., decrease waste, power save, increase efficiency, etc.). Additionally, using bounding parameters and/or information from the environment (e.g., nearby product dispensers) can lead to further optimized performance of the product dispenser. User or group specific optimized dispensing parameters can also be determined and used.

Claim (Index 15):
A method for determining an overall estimated number of unique users during a dispensing period, the method comprising:\n causing, by a controller of a product dispenser, a dispensing mechanism of the product dispenser to perform each of a number of dispenses of product during the dispensing period; sensing, by at least one of a user sensor of the product dispenser, a tear sensor of the product dispenser, or other type sensor of the product dispenser that is configured to sense the occurrence of a dispense, the number of dispenses in the dispensing period; sensing, by a time sensor of the product dispenser, time data associated with each of the number of dispenses in the dispensing period, wherein the time data comprises at least one of a time associated with each of the number of dispenses in the dispensing period or a time period between each of the number of dispenses in the dispensing period; determining a first subset of the number of dispenses in the dispensing period, wherein each dispense in the first subset occurred more than a threshold time apart from any other dispense in the dispensing period; determining a second subset of the number of dispenses in the dispensing period, wherein each dispense in the second subset occurred less than the threshold time apart from at least one other dispense in the dispensing period; determining a first estimated number of unique users equal to a total number of dispenses in the first subset; determining a second estimated number of unique users equal to a fraction of a total number of dispenses in the second subset; and determining the overall estimated number of unique users during the dispensing period by summing the first estimated number of unique users and the second estimated number of unique users.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86111
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15213910', '14604232', '15481113', '15247019', '12567266']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4605731554195094
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5313264001693633
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4676484798944948
- Mean Citation Score: 290.5578720000001
- Max Citation Score: 391.49115
- Similarity Product: 319.0711433240354

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test