PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15947130
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["703", "001000"]

Abstract:
This document generally describes simulating warehouse automation designs and evaluating the results of such simulations to optimize automated warehouse designs. Warehouse automation can be simulated, for example, to determine an optimal warehouse automation design given a variety of parameters that are specific to the warehouse, such as the expected customer inventory demands over time, the layout of the warehouse, and/or the specific automation features (e.g., machines) that are possible within the warehouse. Such warehouse simulations can be repeatedly run and warehouse automation designs can be modified to identify an optimal warehouse automation design that will, for example, maximize the efficiency of the warehouse by minimizing pallet place and pull times, minimizing truck load/unload times, and minimizing/eliminating failures during which the warehouse is not able to meet threshold performance metrics.

Claim (Index 1):
A system for optimizing warehouse automation design, the system comprising:\n an automated warehouse design database that is programmed to store a warehouse automation model for a current automation design for a warehouse, the current automation design including automation components to automate storage of pallets within the warehouse; a historical inventory database that is programmed to store historical inventory data for the warehouse, the historical inventory data identifying, at least, pallets stored in the warehouse, times at which the pallets were stored and removed from the warehouse, and truck identifiers for trucks carrying the pallets; and an automated warehouse design simulator including one or more processors that are configured to:\n access the historical inventory information and the warehouse automation model; \n chronologically simulate, according to the specific timing included in the historical inventory data, storage and retrieval of the pallets on the current automation design for the warehouse using the warehouse automation model, wherein the warehouse automation model (i) maps functional and physical relationships between the automation components, and (ii) includes movement parameters for the automation components; \n detect arrival of the pallets at checkpoints within the current automation design for a warehouse; \n record timestamps for simulated times at which the pallets arrived at the checkpoints; \n assess performance of the current automation design for a warehouse under the simulation based on analysis of the recorded timestamps; and \n output the performance information for the current automation design for a warehouse.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8
- Patent Class: 703.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15947073', '15280985', '13836305', '15255696', '15244525']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2597418759263764
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5083626423938735
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2846039525731261
- Mean Citation Score: 249.747656
- Max Citation Score: 297.04178
- Similarity Product: 242.7704650124336

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