PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16277594
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["455", "457000"]

Abstract:
Described in detail herein are systems and methods for determining in situ locations of physical objects using mobile devices within a facility. Multiple mobile devices may scan different identifiers of different physical objects disposed in a facility. The mobile devices may transmit the identifiers to a distributed computing system. The distributed computing system may query a database to determine the in situ location of the physical objects associated with the identifiers. In response to not being able to retrieve a in situ location of a physical object, the distributed computing system may determine a path of the mobile device which transmitted the identifier associated with the physical object with the unknown in situ location. The distributed computing system may determine the in situ location of the physical object for which the in situ location was unknown based on the path and the known locations of the other physical objects.

Claim (Index 1):
A system comprising:\n a distributed computing system; one or more mobile devices communicatively coupled to the distributed computing system, including a processor and an optical reader, one or more of the mobile devices being configured to (i) scan a plurality of different identifiers of a plurality of different geographically distributed physical objects, and (ii) transmit the plurality of different identifiers to the distributed computing system; wherein the distributed computing system is programmed to:\n receive the plurality of different identifiers for the plurality of different geographically distributed physical objects; \n query a database for known locations of the plurality of different geographically distributed physical objects using the plurality of different identifiers, wherein a location of at least one of the plurality of different geographically distributed physical objects is unknown; \n interpolate each of the known locations of the plurality of different geographically distributed physical objects as a data point; \n retrieve a map of a facility in which the plurality of different geographically distributed physical objects are designated to be disposed from the database; \n overlay the map including locations at which each physical object of the plurality of different geographically distributed physical objects are designated to be disposed, over the data points representing each known location of the physical objects; \n determine whether the data points representing each of the known locations of each of the physical objects correlate with the designated locations of each physical object; \n generate one or more projected paths of the one or more of mobile devices based on the data points, wherein generating the one or more projected paths includes omitting at least one data point determined to be arbitrary, unplanned, or illogical; and \n determine the location of the at least one physical object based on a chronological order of each scan each of the plurality of different identifiers of the plurality of different geographically distributed physical objects and one or more projected paths.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.6
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15464483', '12947545', '16046639', '15478628', '14698317']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7146502850884725
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5061779978699924
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6938030563666244
- Mean Citation Score: 171.266874
- Max Citation Score: 319.4008
- Similarity Product: 317.7076567783356

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