PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15917246
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["209", "583000"]

Abstract:
A sorter including a conveying system to transport items to be sorted. A plurality of lanes are configured to accept the items from the conveying system. A scanner reads information about the items to be sorted. The information including a destination for the item. A controller is in communication with the scanner to receive the destination for the items being sorted and is adapted to open and close selected ones of the plurality of lanes to receive items.

Claim (Index 13):
A sorter, comprising:\n a conveying system to transport items to be sorted; a plurality of lanes configured to accept the items from the conveying system; a scanner to read information about the items to be sorted, the information including a destination for the item; a controller in communication with the scanner to receive the destination for the items being sorted, and further adapted to open and close selected ones of the plurality of lanes, where the controller is configured to:\n determine which of the plurality of lanes are available to receive items in order to identify non-full lanes; \n identify any non-full lane that may be assigned to the destination for the item being sorted as a potential lane for the item; \n identify as an assigned lane at least one potential lane that is currently assigned to the destination corresponding to the destination of item being sorted; \n determine that the assigned lane cannot receive additional items corresponding to the destination; \n identify any of the potential lanes that are not currently assigned to a destination; \n assign the identified potential lane to the destination for the item being sorted; \n determine that none of the potential lanes is currently assigned to the destination for the item being sorted; \n determine that all of the plurality of lanes have an assigned destination; and \n assign the destination corresponding to the item being sorted to the lane with the minimum number of items on it; \n determine that none of the potential lanes is currently assigned to the destination for the item being sorted; \n determine that at least one of the plurality of lanes does not have an assigned destination; \n assign the destination of the item to the unassigned lane with a highest priority corresponding to that destination; and \n control the conveying system to transport items with a destination corresponding to the destination too that lane.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02439
- Patent Class: 209.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15727866', '14941373', '14198013', '15224913', '10980584']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6334966357269686
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4796804554074989
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6181150176950215
- Mean Citation Score: 171.12558
- Max Citation Score: 203.20496
- Similarity Product: 152.66102646671294

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