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 13):
A method for optimizing warehouse automation design, comprising:\n accessing, by an automated warehouse design simulator:\n (i) historical inventory data for a warehouse that identifies, 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 \n (ii) a warehouse automation model for a current automation design for the warehouse, the current automation design including automation components to automate storage of the pallets within the warehouse, the warehouse automation model (a) mapping functional and physical relationships among the automation components, and (b) storing movement parameters for the automation components; \n chronologically simulating, by the automated warehouse design simulator and 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; detecting, by the automated warehouse design simulator, arrival of the pallets at checkpoints within the current automation design for a warehouse; recording timestamps for simulated times at which the pallets arrived at the checkpoints; assessing, by the automated warehouse design simulator, performance of the current automation design for a warehouse under the simulation based on analysis of the recorded timestamps; and outputting the performance information for the current automation design for the 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): 0.2597156510434774
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5085817945198726
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.284602265391117
- Mean Citation Score: 249.747656
- Max Citation Score: 297.04178
- Similarity Product: 241.6512567313385

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