PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15917220
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["340", "005550"]

Abstract:
Determining a position of a deadbolt used to lock and unlock a door is disclosed. An electromechanical lock can include a deadbolt that can retract or extend along a linear path as the door is to be locked and unlocked. A sensor such as an accelerometer can rotate along a non-linear path as the deadbolt moves along a linear path. The accelerometer can determine a gravity vector that can be indicative of a position of the accelerometer along the non-linear path. A controller can then determine a position of the deadbolt based on the gravity vector.

Claim (Index 1):
An electromechanical smart lock configured for wireless communication with a smartphone to lock and unlock a door of a home, the electromechanical smart lock installed within the door, comprising:\n a deadbolt configured to travel along a linear path between the electromechanical smart lock and a deadbolt slot of a door jamb as the electromechanical smart lock transitions among an unlock state to unlock the door and a lock state to lock the door; a motor configured to retract the deadbolt into the electromechanical lock to operate in the unlock state, and configured to extend the deadbolt into the deadbolt slot in the lock state; an accelerometer coupled to a component of the electromechanical lock that is configured to rotate along a non-linear path as the electromechanical smart lock transitions between the unlock state and the lock state, the accelerometer also configured to determine a gravity vector representing an inclination of the accelerometer along the non-linear path; and a controller circuit configured to:\n receive an instruction via wireless communication from the smartphone indicating that the electromechanical smart lock should lock the door of the home by transitioning from the unlock state to the lock state; \n cause the motor to extend the deadbolt along the linear path towards the deadbolt slot to lock the door; \n receive the gravity vector determined by the accelerometer as the accelerometer rotates along the non-linear path; \n determine a position of the deadbolt along the linear path based on the gravity vector; \n determine that the position of the deadbolt along the linear path corresponds to an endpoint of the non-linear path of the accelerometer; and \n cause the motor to stop extending the deadbolt based on the determination that the position of the deadbolt along the linear path corresponds to the endpoint of the non-linear path of the accelerometer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14894
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15917028', '15917153', '15201380', '13754678', '15397515']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6340060818257662
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5044763786904058
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6210531115122302
- Mean Citation Score: 201.918646
- Max Citation Score: 273.20615
- Similarity Product: 252.15399573187827

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