PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16022129
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["701", "416000"]

Abstract:
A handheld, portable device is used to facilitate inspection of vehicles, by generating an electronic vehicle inspection record that can be used by fleet operators to provide evidence of complying with required vehicle inspections. When the vehicle inspection record is generated, route identification data is added to the inspection record. The route identification data defines which of a plurality of predefined routes the vehicle has serviced, or will service, during a time period proximate the inspection of the vehicle. Fleet operators can thus use archived inspection records as evidence of compliance with inspection requirements, and to document what route a vehicle serviced at a particular time.

Claim (Index 11):
A portable, handheld data collection device for collecting vehicle inspection data and route identification (ID) data, to generate an inspection record for providing evidence that a plurality of locations were visited during a vehicle inspection, and for providing the identity of a route serviced by the vehicle during a time period proximate the vehicle inspection, the system comprising:\n (a) a housing; (b) an output for providing at least one of a visual indication and an audible indication to a user of the portable device; (c) an operator interface; (d) a memory in which machine instructions and data are stored; (e) a sensor for detecting when the portable device is proximate any of the plurality of locations, and in response thereto producing a signal indicating that the portable device is proximate to one of the plurality of locations, defined on the exterior of the vehicle; and (f) a controller coupled to the display, the memory, the operator interface, and the sensor, said controller executing the machine instructions and implementing the functions of:\n (i) prompting an operator to input route ID data, the route ID data specifically identifying the route serviced by the vehicle during the time period proximate the vehicle inspection; \n (ii) generating inspection data in response to the signal produced by the sensor, such that whenever the sensor produces the signal, an identity of a specific one of the plurality of locations, defined on the exterior of the vehicle, that the portable device is proximate to when the signal is produced is added to the inspection data; and \n (iii) generating an inspection record including the route ID data and the inspection data.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.75758
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13159182', '11425222', '10915957', '12475218', '12881559']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4294288350108482
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5684883866620242
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4433347901759658
- Mean Citation Score: 309.681396
- Max Citation Score: 447.89517
- Similarity Product: 423.3409422540199

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