PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16180739
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["701", "025000"]

Abstract:
Autonomous and manually operated vehicles are integrated into a cohesive, interactive environment, with communications to each other and to their surroundings, to improve traffic flow while reducing accidents and other incidents. All vehicles send/receive messages to/from each other, and from infrastructure devices, enabling the vehicles to determine their status, traffic conditions and infrastructure. The vehicles store and operate in accordance with a common set of rules based upon the messages received and other inputs from sensors, databases, and so forth, to avoid obstacles and collisions based upon current and, in some cases, future or predicted behavior. Shared vehicle control interfaces enable the AVs to conform to driving activities that are legal, safe, and allowable on roadways. Such activities enable each AV to drive within safety margins, speed limits, on allowed or legal driving lanes and through allowed turns, intersections, mergers, lane changes, stops/starts, and so forth.

Claim (Index 1):
A transportation system for managing vehicular behavior, comprising:\n one or more autonomous vehicles (AVs), each including: (a) a drive train including a source of motive power coupled to wheels, a steering system, and controls for acceleration and braking; (b) a first set of sensors operative to provide self-location of the AV; (c) a second set of sensors operative to monitor an environment surrounding the AV; (d) a wireless communications interface; (e) a memory storing road maps including information regarding the location of infrastructure, roadways and intersections, and route plans including paths from starting points to destinations; (f) an electronic controller in communication with (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e), and wherein the electronic controller is operative to start, stop, steer, and control the speed of the AV to execute the route plans; one or more manually operated vehicles (MVs), each including: (g) a drive train including a source of motive power coupled to wheels, a steering system, and controls for acceleration and braking; (h) a wireless communications interface; (i) a memory storing road maps including information regarding the location of infrastructure, roadways and intersections; (j) an electronic controller in communication with (g), (h) and (i), and wherein the electronic controller is operative to start, stop, steer, and control the speed of the MV in accordance with operator commands; one or more infrastructure devices, each infrastructure device including a wireless communications interface; wherein both the AVs and MVs receive messages from each other and from the infrastructure devices enabling the AVs and MVs to determine the status of traffic conditions and infrastructure in their vicinity; and wherein the AVs and MVs store, and operate is accordance with, a common set of rules based upon sensor inputs and the messages exchanged.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72727
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14196189', '15806844', '13468671', '15994826', '15451734']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3783486528202173
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4900357834483902
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3895173658830346
- Mean Citation Score: 196.618148
- Max Citation Score: 214.92267
- Similarity Product: 156.4086030982161

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

Dataset: test