PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16113711
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["235", "383000"]

Abstract:
A checkout system includes a plurality of settlement apparatuses and a registration apparatus. The registration apparatus includes a scanner, a storage unit, a communication interface, and a processor. The processor controls the scanner, the storage unit and the communication interface to identify a commodity corresponding to a scanned code, generate the settlement information, and transmit the settlement information to a selected one of the plurality of settlement apparatuses. The selected one of the plurality of settlement apparatuses determines, with respect to itself, whether a settlement processing is currently being performed and whether a settlement processing was completed within a preceding predetermined amount of time. Based on the determination, the selected one of the plurality of settlement apparatuses performs one of the settlement processing with respect to the received settlement information and transmission of the settlement information to another one of the plurality of settlement apparatuses.

Claim (Index 9):
The apparatus according to  claim 8 , wherein\n when the processor determines that a settlement processing is not currently being performed and that no settlement processing was completed within a preceding predetermined amount of time, the processor performs the settlement processing with respect to the received settlement information.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.74138
- Patent Class: 235.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15412783', '15602151', '13006666', '12505733', '15686898']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5493767798168169
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5049904317340919
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5449381450085443
- Mean Citation Score: 200.759476
- Max Citation Score: 316.41815
- Similarity Product: 299.5912279250681

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