PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16106993
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["463", "017000"]

Abstract:
An embodiment involves obtaining a number; associating consecutive digits of the number with consecutive rotatable cylinders arranged in an axial row, wherein each rotatable cylinder has a hole on its outer rim; causing a loading module, that is disposed above the rotatable cylinders and contains ten rotatable sections, to load balls from at least some of the ten sections into a rotatable cylinder, wherein each of the ten sections contains balls respectively labelled by way of RFID tags with a different digit; causing the rotatable cylinder to rotate and deposit a ball onto an inclined slot; receiving, from an RFID reader, a representation of a digit labelled on the ball; and based on the digit, causing the loading module to load additional balls from at least some of the ten sections into a next rotatable cylinder that is adjacent to the rotatable cylinder.

Claim (Index 1):
A method comprising:\n obtaining a number; associating consecutive digits of the number with consecutive rotatable cylinders of a plurality of rotatable cylinders arranged in an axial row, wherein each rotatable cylinder has a hole on its outer rim; causing a loading module, that is disposed above the plurality of rotatable cylinders and contains ten rotatable sections arranged in an axial row, to use axial and rotational movement to load balls from at least some of the ten rotatable sections into a rotatable cylinder of the plurality of rotatable cylinders, wherein each of the ten rotatable sections has a hole commensurate in size to the holes in the rotatable cylinders, and wherein each of the ten rotatable sections contains balls respectively labelled with a different digit in the range of 0 through 9, and wherein the balls are labelled by way of RFID tags; causing the rotatable cylinder to rotate and thereby deposit a ball onto an inclined slot that is disposed below and axially aligned with the plurality of rotatable cylinders; receiving, from an RFID reader at a distal end of the inclined slot, a representation of a digit labelled on the ball; and based on the digit, causing the loading module to use axial and rotational movement to load additional balls from at least some of the ten rotatable sections of the loading module into a next rotatable cylinder of the plurality of rotatable cylinders that is adjacent to the rotatable cylinder.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19718
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15127728', '13460201', '09808329', '13189248', '12393396']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2810955221507571
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5277044391053536
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3057564138462167
- Mean Citation Score: 230.625664
- Max Citation Score: 385.51767
- Similarity Product: 278.5304373450029

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

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