PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15971334
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["700", "230000"]

Abstract:
Systems, methods and computer-readable media for automating the restocking of shelves process by sending a notification when a product on a shelf has reached, or will reach, an undesired level of emptiness. This is determined using imaging sensors, such as cameras, which can calculate how full or empty a respective shelf is and predict when the shelf will need to be restocked. When the restocking time arrives, the notification can be sent to automated systems, which automatically cause new products to be stocked on the shelf via a conveyor system.

Claim (Index 1):
A method comprising:\n receiving, from a plurality of imaging sensors, real-time imaging data, the real-time imaging data including images of a plurality of products on a store shelf, the plurality of products having a plurality of product types, wherein the plurality of imaging sensors:\n (1) detect motion between an imaging sensor in the plurality of imaging sensors and the store shelf; \n (2) detect an end of the motion; and \n (3) wait a pre-determined amount of time after the end of the motion before recording the images; \n storing the real-time imaging data in a database, wherein the database contains item-specific data associated with each product in the plurality of products, the item-specific data including dimensions, weight, and orientation information of the each product; calculating, in real-time and for each product in the plurality of products, a current quantity of a product on the store shelf based on the real-time imaging data and the item-specific data; calculating a current depletion rate for each product in the plurality of products based on the current quantity of the each product, a previous quantity of the each product, and a historical sales rate of the each product; forecasting when an emptiness threshold for each product in the plurality of products will be reached based on the current depletion rate for the each product and the current quantity of the each product, to yield a plurality of forecasted replenishment times, each forecasted replenishment time in the plurality of forecasted replenishment times identifying when a respective product in the plurality of products will reach the emptiness threshold; and at each forecasted replenishment time in the plurality of forecasted replenishment times:\n generating an alert for restocking the respective product via a conveyor system; and \n triggering the conveyor system to restock the respective product based on the alert.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.51515
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15971357', '11467195', '15683279', '12623468', '13647147']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4008986187273041
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5837408237316815
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4191828392277419
- Mean Citation Score: 252.71988
- Max Citation Score: 505.2335
- Similarity Product: 460.7806614923178

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