PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16052283
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["705", "014230"]

Abstract:
Systems, methods, and apparatus are disclosed for providing instant rebates before a transaction is completed. This involves ingest of customer and rebate data from two or more utilities, where the data is parsed and normalized into a standard format across all of the utilities. The customer data is then stored in an accounts database, while the rebate data is further processed along with utility rebate rules to determine a set of rebate eligibilities for a variety of scenarios. The resulting rebate profiles can be stored in a rebates database and linked to corresponding customer account data in the accounts database. Third-party frontends can then request rebate eligibility based on a customer identifier and retail channel, and various services can work in tandem to query the rebated database and return a set of eligibilities with so little latency that the eligibility check appears instant from a customer's standpoint.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for reducing latency in product rebate eligibility, the method comprising:\n ingesting customer and rebate data from one or more utility companies, via an ingest subsystem, to form normalized customer data and normalized rebate data, wherein the normalized rebate data includes rebate rules specific to ones of the one or more utility companies; storing persistent utility rebate rules in a rebates database, wherein the persistent utility rebate rules constitute rebate eligibility parameters; storing runtime rebate rules in the rebates database, wherein the runtime rebate rules represent rebate eligibility parameters for a provider of energy-saving products and are customer-specific; applying, via a rules engine, the persistent utility rebate rules to the normalized rebate data to generate rebate profiles, and storing the rebate profiles in the rebate database, wherein the rebate profiles include a plurality of rebate eligibilities for a plurality of redemption scenarios, and wherein each rebate profile is not customer-specific; and then querying, via the rules engine, the rebates database for ones of the rebate profiles corresponding to a customer identification received from an API of a frontend client service; applying, via the rules engine, the runtime rebate rules to the rebate profiles to identify one or more customer-specific rebates; returning, via the rules engine, the customer-specific rebate to the API, so that the one of the frontend client services that provided the customer identification can apply the customer-specific rebate to a customer's purchase.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.77528
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15791011', '11303258', '12595553', '13741146', '11504122']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.0925335998935051
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.645858065418876
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1478660464460422
- Mean Citation Score: 316.75209
- Max Citation Score: 731.7291
- Similarity Product: 549.4842323949516

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