PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16198439
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["705", "007250"]

Abstract:
Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media provide for allocating vehicle resources to future vehicle requirements. In some embodiments, allocating a vehicle resource to a vehicle requirement may be based on an iterative analysis of candidate vehicle resources using one or more of: a suitability of a candidate vehicle resource to fulfil the vehicle requirement, a journey time from a vehicle location to a start location, and/or a start time for the vehicle requirement.

Claim (Index 1):
A system for allocating networked vehicle resources to vehicle requirements, the system comprising:\n a plurality of requester devices; a plurality of vehicle resources, each vehicle resource being associated with a respective vehicle location; and a vehicle resource allocation controller device comprising:\n at least one processor in communication with the plurality of requester devices and with the plurality of vehicle resources, and \n a computer-readable medium in communication with the at least one processor of the vehicle resource allocation controller device, the computer-readable medium storing instructions that when executed by the at least one processor direct the at least one processor to:\n a) store plural vehicle requirements from the plurality of requester devices in the form of plural vehicle requests, each vehicle request including at least a respective start time and a respective start location; \n b) for a first vehicle request of the plural vehicle requests, automatically determine that a current time has a predetermined relationship with respect to the start time of the first vehicle request; \n c) in response to the determining at step b), form a pool of candidate vehicle resources for possible fulfillment of the first vehicle request; \n d) for each candidate vehicle resource in the pool of candidate vehicle resources, calculate a respective score that is related to the suitability of the candidate vehicle resource to fulfil the first vehicle request; \n e) for one or more of the candidate vehicle resources in the pool of candidate vehicle resources, calculate a respective journey time from the candidate vehicle resource's associated vehicle location to the start location included in the first vehicle request; \n f) determine whether there is a need to allocate a vehicle resource to the first vehicle request, using both:\n 1) the respective scores calculated for the candidate vehicle resources of the pool of candidate vehicle resources, and \n 2) the calculated one or more respective journey times; \n \n g) perform steps d), e) and f) at least two times for the first vehicle request until it is determined at step f) that there is a need to allocate a vehicle resource to the first vehicle request; and \n h) on determining at step f) that there is a need to allocate a vehicle resource to the first vehicle request, allocate to the first vehicle request a vehicle resource of the pool of candidate vehicle resources based on the respective scores calculated on last performance of step d).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82222
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15051956', '15051948', '15051909', '15487313', '15051920']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1037354036426304
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5102999684716173
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1443918601255291
- Mean Citation Score: 200.9237
- Max Citation Score: 320.71643
- Similarity Product: 287.9150570752638

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

Dataset: test