PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15941898
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["705", "021000"]

Abstract:
According to an embodiment, a check-out system includes a plurality of the payment apparatuses in communication with each other and with a registration apparatus. A payment processor processes a payment in accordance with received payment information and a customer input. A storage unit stores received payment information when the payment apparatus is available to process payment. A transmission unit of a payment apparatus transmits received payment information to another payment apparatus of the plurality of payment apparatuses when the payment apparatus is unavailable to currently process the received payment information.

Claim (Index 21):
A check-out system, comprising:\n a registration apparatus; and a plurality of payment apparatuses in communication with each other and with the registration apparatus, wherein the registration apparatus includes:\n a first display, and \n a registration processor programmed to:\n generate payment information for a transaction based on input data corresponding to an item for the transaction, and \n control the first display to provide a notification to a customer of which payment apparatus out of the plurality of payment apparatuses is available to currently process payment for a transaction of the customer; and \n \n each of the payment apparatuses includes:\n a communication unit configured to receive the generated payment information via a network, \n a second display, and \n a payment processor programmed to:\n control the second display to provide a notification to the customer that the payment apparatus itself is available to currently process payment for the transaction of the customer, when the payment apparatus is available to currently process the received payment information, and \n process a payment in accordance with the received payment information and a customer input.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2093
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15941925', '15253310', '15371613', '15246794', '15208979']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1141298706833578
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5089489669376619
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1536117803087882
- Mean Citation Score: 240.747656
- Max Citation Score: 317.0884700000001
- Similarity Product: 277.6493108834351

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