PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15875760
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["235", "385000"]

Abstract:
In some embodiments, methods and systems of locating overstock items at a retail sales facility include receiving an indication that a product at the retail sales facility is out of stock and determining whether the product is located on a sales floor or in the stock room at the retail sales facility; then, in response to a determination that the product is not located on the sales floor or in the stock room, tracking a location of the product based on at least one inventory management factor associated with the retail sales facility and at least one worker task event associated with the product; and outputting to a worker at the retail sales facility, based on the tracking of the location of the at least one product, an indication of a perceived location of the least one product.

Claim (Index 14):
A system for tracking out of stock items at a retail sales facility, the system comprising:\n at least one storage means storing electronic data indicating at least one product that is offered for sale to consumers at a display location on a sales floor of at the retail sales facility; and a control means including a processor in communication with the at least one inventory management database, the control means configured to: receive electronic data from the at least one storage means that indicates that the at least one product is not located at the display location on the sales floor of the retail sales facility and is not located in a stock room of the retail sales facility; track a location of the at least one product at the retail sales facility other than the display location and other than the stock room of the retail sales facility based on at least one inventory management factor associated with the retail sales facility and at least one worker task event associated with the at least one product, the at least one management factor and the worker task event being stored in the storage means; and output to a worker at the retail sales facility, based on the tracked location of the at least one product, an indication of a predicted location of the least one product at the retail sales facility other than the display location and other than the stock room of the retail sales facility; wherein the at least one inventory management factor includes at least one of: mis-rings, shipping error, sales floor quantity versus shelf cap, change in on-hand inventory at the retail sales facility, bin accuracy, perpetual inventory accuracy, modular integrity, shrink, replenishment method, and pick completion; and wherein the at least one worker task event includes at least one of: time stamp of last sale of the at least one product, time stamp of last customer return of the at least one product, time stamp of last customer claim for the at least one product, time stamp of last binning or unbinning of the at least one product, time stamp of last feature set or unset of the at least one product, time stamp of last delivery of the at least one product, time stamp of last scan of the at least one product, time stamp of last price change of the at least one product, and time stamp of pick of the at least one product.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.60714
- Patent Class: 235.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15202897', '15203482', '15823934', '15490102', '15678450']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5800563351095689
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5332915722540087
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5753798588240129
- Mean Citation Score: 323.706012
- Max Citation Score: 388.57745
- Similarity Product: 345.4243454482019

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

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