PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15997239
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["455", "456100"]

Abstract:
A BLE location system and method are disclosed. The BLE system may provide accurate location of a BLE enabled object in a three dimensional space. The three dimensional space may be a building and the BLE system and method permits accurate location at a room, bay, and bed level in the three dimensional space to be determined. In some embodiments, the BLE system may determine if a BLE enabled object crosses a boundary and the boundary may be, for example, a boundary to a room, such as a door, a boundary to a space, such as a hallway or meeting area, or a boundary to a particular location identified by set of coordinates (X,Y or X,Y,Z for example). The determination of the boundary crossing of the BLE enabled object or the location of the BLE enabled object may be used for staff and patient locating and their associated workflows as well as high accuracy asset tracking in a hospital embodiment.

Claim (Index 1):
A location engine for location determination, comprising:\n a processor and a memory; a floor selection process executed by the processor that receives one or more signals of one or more Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons received by a BLE enabled object and determines a floor location of the BLE enabled object; a location process executed by the processor that receives the one or more BLE beacon signals and determines one or more locations of the BLE enabled object in response to the determined floor location of the BLE enabled object using a plurality of different location determining processes, and wherein the location process uses a zone process to determine the location of the BLE enabled object using the one or more BLE beacon signals when the BLE enabled object determined floor location is a significant area of use, uses a rapid room entry process to determine the location of the BLE enabled object using the one or more BLE beacon signals when the BLE enabled object is in the determined floor location and crosses a boundary, and uses a bed/bay location process to determine the location of the BLE enabled object using the one or more BLE beacon signals when the BLE enabled object determined floor location is in a sub room location; and wherein the location process automatically selects an output location result from the one or more determined locations of the BLE enabled object.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.42667
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15696124', '14679501', '14667021', '15348715', '15840943']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6714605245682569
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5603849920759923
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6603529713190304
- Mean Citation Score: 295.841882
- Max Citation Score: 414.8749
- Similarity Product: 412.1954712488532

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

Dataset: test