PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16198439
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["705", "007250"]

Abstract:
Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media provide for allocating vehicle resources to future vehicle requirements. In some embodiments, allocating a vehicle resource to a vehicle requirement may be based on an iterative analysis of candidate vehicle resources using one or more of: a suitability of a candidate vehicle resource to fulfil the vehicle requirement, a journey time from a vehicle location to a start location, and/or a start time for the vehicle requirement.

Claim (Index 27):
A method for a vehicle resource allocation controller device to allocate networked vehicle resources to vehicle requirements, the method comprising:\n a) storing, by a vehicle resource allocation controller device, plural vehicle requirements from a plurality of requester devices in the form of plural vehicle requests, each vehicle request including at least a respective start time and a respective start location,\n wherein the vehicle resource allocation controller device is in communication with:\n the plurality of requester devices, and \n a plurality of vehicle resources, each vehicle resource being associated with a respective vehicle location; \n \n b) for a first vehicle request of the plural vehicle requests, automatically determining, by the vehicle resource allocation controller device, that a current time has a predetermined relationship with respect to the start time of the first vehicle request; c) in response to the determining at step b), forming, by the vehicle resource allocation controller device, a pool of candidate vehicle resources for possible fulfillment of the first vehicle request; d) for each candidate vehicle resource in the pool of candidate vehicle resources, calculating, by the vehicle resource allocation controller device, a respective score that is related to the suitability of the candidate vehicle resource to fulfil the first vehicle request; e) for one or more of the candidate vehicle resources in the pool of candidate vehicle resources, calculating, by the vehicle resource allocation controller device, a respective journey time from the candidate vehicle resource's associated vehicle location to the start location included in the first vehicle request; f) determining, by the vehicle resource allocation controller device, whether there is a need to allocate a vehicle resource to the first vehicle request, using both:\n 1) the respective scores calculated for the candidate vehicle resources of the pool of candidate vehicle resources, and \n 2) the calculated one or more respective journey times; \n g) performing, by the vehicle resource allocation controller device, steps d), e) and f) at least two times for the first vehicle request until it is determined at step f) that there is a need to allocate a vehicle resource to the first vehicle request; and h) on determining at step f) that there is a need to allocate a vehicle resource to the first vehicle request, allocating, by the vehicle resource allocation controller device, to the first vehicle request a vehicle resource of the pool of candidate vehicle resources based on the respective scores calculated on last performance of step d).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82222
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15051956', '15051948', '15051909', '15487313', '15051920']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1036634818966328
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5127950709750684
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1445766408044764
- Mean Citation Score: 200.9237
- Max Citation Score: 320.71643
- Similarity Product: 267.78519404354216

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

Dataset: test