PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16051388
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["340", "572100"]

Abstract:
Apparatus and systems using merchandise activity sensors for increasing the awareness of interactivity with merchandise on retail store displays (shelves, peg hooks, merchandise pushers, and other Point of Purchase displays) in order to facilitate more effective customer service, reduce theft and to provide additional analysis data related to merchandise/shopper interaction. Additionally, apparatus and systems for the conversion of cameras from passive to active deterrence devices aware of events occurring the environment. More particularly, the present invention pertains to awareness of behaviors often related to potential theft activity.

Claim (Index 13):
The system of  claim 8 , wherein the visual cue performs at least one function selected from the group consisting of visually indicating the camera has gone active, attracting the attention of a thief to look at the device, allowing store personnel observing the device(s) from a distance to physically locate the zone of suspicious activity and/or the location of shoppers to whom they may offer service, indicating the level of risk or other activity based on color and/or flashing rate of lights, and inferring a direction of interest from the device's perspective based on detected activity.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.46269
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15269774', '14629233', '15641276', '11443500', '12176821']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7413699061138278
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5496706829485497
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7221999837973
- Mean Citation Score: 263.684804
- Max Citation Score: 411.38116
- Similarity Product: 274.0555255142403

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

Dataset: test