PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16309984
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["700", "236000"]

Abstract:
A system and method are provided for improving product usage prior to refill of product dispensers in service areas that include a plurality of such dispensers. Via a sensor configured with each of the product dispensers and a control system in communication with the sensors, a product level or amount condition of product in each dispenser is detected. Based on the information from the sensors, a visual or audio message is generated and transmitted to the patron that encourages the patron to use a first product dispenser that has a greater product fill amount as compared to a second product dispenser in the same or a different service area.

Claim (Index 12):
The method as in  claim 11 , further comprising switching the towel dispenser operating in hanging towel mode back to hidden towel mode upon reaching the setpoint low fill level in the towel dispenser operating in hanging towel mode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80952
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15560198', '15552612', '15604883', '11971416', '15213910']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4029068326764706
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4848856718329217
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4111047165921158
- Mean Citation Score: 174.230844
- Max Citation Score: 195.051
- Similarity Product: 127.69592158806324

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