PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15863050
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["701", "025000"]

Abstract:
A hybrid modular storage fetching system with a robot execution system (REX) is described. In an example implementation, a REX may induct, into the hybrid modular storage fetching system, an order identifying items to be fulfilled by automated guided vehicles (AGVs) at an order fulfillment facility. The REX may generate at task list including tasks for a first and second AGV, instruct the first AGV to retrieve a first item in the order from a first storage area based on the task list and deliver the first item to a pick-cell station. The REX may also instruct the second AGV to retrieve a second item of the order from a second storage area and deliver the second item to the pick-cell station. The REX may communicate with other components of the hybrid modular storage fetching system to coordinate the paths of the AGVs to fulfill the order.

Claim (Index 20):
A method comprising:\n receiving an induction instruction from a warehouse management system, the induction instruction indicating a first item to be picked using a cart AGV and a second item to be picked using a picking AGV; instructing the cart AGV to connect to connectable cart; receiving a first confirmation from one or more picker computing devices that the cart AGV is connected to the connectable cart; selecting a pick-cell station from among a plurality of pick-cell stations; instructing the cart AGV to propel the connectable cart to a location of the first item; receiving a second confirmation from the one or more picker computing devices that the first item has been picked to the connectable cart; instructing the cart AGV to propel the connectable cart to the pick-cell station; instructing the picking AGV to\n navigate to a second location of the second item; \n retrieve the second item from a storage shelf at the second location; and \n navigate to the pick-cell station; \n presenting, for display on the one or more picker computing devices to a pick-cell picker, an instruction to place the first item and the second item in a designated carton on the connectable cart; receiving a third confirmation from the one or more picker computing devices that the first item and the second item have been placed in the designated carton; and instructing the cart AGV to propel the connectable cart to a finalizing area and detach from the connectable cart in the finalizing area.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31884
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15863017', '15258079', '15814564', '15280492', '11078962']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5291180626784778
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.528264264570729
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.529032682867703
- Mean Citation Score: 256.13437000000005
- Max Citation Score: 384.42667
- Similarity Product: 292.40646244550817

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

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