PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15870573
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["700", "237000"]

Abstract:
Two-way exchange vending can be performed by a two-way exchange based vending machine. The two-way exchange based vending machine can vend rechargeable batteries. The two-way exchange based vending machine can include different modules to perform different functionalities. The two-way exchange based vending machine can include a communications module, a dispensing module, a rejection module, and a receiving module. The communications module can communicate information to and receive inputs from a user. The dispensing module can dispense one or more rechargeable batteries or other requested products to a user. The receiving module can receive one or more rechargeable batteries from a user.

Claim (Index 11):
A vending system comprising:\n a vending unit for vending products, the vending unit comprising a communication module and a unique identifier; and a central computer, remote from the vending unit, the central computer comprising:\n a processor; \n a database associating the unique identifier with product information for products available at the vending unit; and \n a communication unit, the central computer being in communication with the vending unit; \n wherein the central computer is configured to receive the unique identifier indicative of the vending unit from a user vending interface running on a user interface device, the user interface device being located remotely from the vending unit; and wherein the central computer is configured to determine from the database the identity of products available at the vending unit in response to receiving the unique identifier from the user vending interface and to communicate an option for completing a transaction at the vending unit to the user vending interface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64286
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14386762', '13150930', '15355631', '14331012', '15419744']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3876576514781229
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.514846097727242
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4003764961030348
- Mean Citation Score: 214.346502
- Max Citation Score: 335.79794
- Similarity Product: 325.0404351187456

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

Dataset: test