PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16141487
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["340", "540000"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems are provided for evaluating shopping cart wheels using a sensor module or one or more microphones engaged with the shopping cart. The microphones can be used to detect sounds generated by the wheels of the shopping cart. A sound signature can be determined from the detected sound and compared to sound signatures in a database. If the detected sound indicates that a wheel of the shopping cart is failing, an alert can be generated using an associate alert system.

Claim (Index 1):
A system for monitoring the status of one or more wheels of a shopping cart, the system comprising:\n a shopping cart including a frame and wheels configured to support the frame; one or more microphones positioned on the shopping cart to detect sounds generated by the wheels of the shopping cart; a communication module engaged with the shopping cart, the communication module configured to receive information related to the sounds detected by the one or more microphones and configured to emit wireless transmissions including the information; a wireless receiver configured to receive the wireless transmissions from the sensor module; and a server in communication with the wireless receiver, the server including an associate alert system and a processor that can execute instructions to:\n receive the wireless transmissions from the communication module via the wireless receiver, the wireless transmissions including signals associated with the sounds generated by the wheels detected by the one or more microphones; and \n generate an alert using the associate alert system in response to determining that the signals received by the server indicate that at least one of the wheels of the shopping cart is failing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.64151
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15835958', '13195715', '14189740', '16101984', '15696976']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6710298641401988
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4989466146562556
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6538215391918045
- Mean Citation Score: 165.355334
- Max Citation Score: 276.13986
- Similarity Product: 262.4214472208512

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