PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16211009
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["705", "338000"]

Abstract:
In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided herein useful to the secure delivery of merchandise using unmanned aerial vehicles forming a delivery chain. In some embodiments, the system includes: multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in which each UAV includes a motorized flight system, a navigational system, a merchandise storage system, a memory, a transceiver, and a UAV control circuit. The system further includes: a UAV delivery chain including a starting location, a delivery location, and one or more intermediate transfer locations; and a centralized storage and processing node configured to host a hash chain database containing delivery parameters of the UAVs. In the system, each UAV control circuit is configured to communicate with and cause the centralized node to: retrieve delivery parameters assigned to the UAV, decrypt the delivery parameters; identify another UAV as a transferee to accept receipt of the merchandise, and update the hash chain database.

Claim (Index 11):
A method for the secure delivery of merchandise using a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles forming a delivery chain, the method comprising:\n providing a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for transporting a merchandise item, each UAV comprising:\n a motorized flight system configured to facilitate flight of the UAV; \n a navigational system for guiding the UAV along a flight path; \n a merchandise storage or securement system configured to hold at least one merchandise item during flight; \n a memory device; \n a transceiver configured for wireless communication; \n a UAV control circuit operatively coupled to the motorized flight system, the navigational system, and the transceiver, the control circuit configured to operate and fly the UAV; \n defining a UAV delivery chain including a starting location wherein a starting UAV receives the merchandise item, a delivery location wherein a delivery UAV delivers the merchandise item, and one or more intermediate transfer locations between the starting and delivery locations wherein one of the plurality of UAVs transfers the merchandise item to another one of the plurality of UAVs; by a centralized storage and processing node, hosting a hash chain database containing delivery parameters associated with each of the plurality of UAVs and updating the hash chain database; by each UAV control circuit, communicating with the centralized node, via the transceiver, to cause the centralized node to:\n retrieve delivery parameters assigned to the UAV from the hash chain database wherein the delivery parameters for the UAV is at least partially encrypted at the centralized node; \n decrypt the delivery parameters assigned to the UAV with a public or private key of the UAV assigned to the UAV; \n identify another UAV as a transferee to accept receipt of the merchandise item or, if the UAV is the delivery UAV, identify the delivery location wherein the delivery UAV delivers the merchandise item; and \n update the hash chain database with a new block comprising a hash of preceding data in the hash chain database and delivery parameters encrypted with a public or private key of the UAV.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17722
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16039118', '15855399', '15360091', '15218609', '15331147']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1080047086850494
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4831240422536764
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1455166420419121
- Mean Citation Score: 186.815174
- Max Citation Score: 197.52115
- Similarity Product: 140.0343112959653

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