PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15901165
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["209", "606000"]

Abstract:
A delivery point sorting device with two feeders for receiving and forwarding mail in streams, where a diverging apparatus divert module is configured to process the mail from the two feeders and a merge module converges the streams of mail from the two feeders and distributes the mail to respective endpoints. Sorting endpoints are used for loading the mail received from this converging apparatus. A method where items of mail are sorted through sorting passes including a first, second, and third sorting pass. Sorting passes are; processing mail through two feeders by receiving the mail by the feeders and forwarding the mail articles in streams of mail, converging the streams of mail from the feeders to a conveyor apparatus, loading the mail at sorting endpoints by the conveyor apparatus, and sequentially passing the mail through the first, second, and third sorting pass.

Claim (Index 2):
The delivery point sorting device according to  claim 1 , which further comprises a storage module configured to store an item of mail for a specific time in a stationary state or to delay the item of mail, where said storage module is arranged upstream of said merge modules in a flow direction of said streams of mail articles.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.58333
- Patent Class: 209.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12518385', '11856174', '12329262', '11632923', '12543599']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7038583787241337
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5015998981498785
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6836325306667081
- Mean Citation Score: 243.572864
- Max Citation Score: 266.4375
- Similarity Product: 194.61334151029587

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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