PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15880719
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["235", "385000"]

Abstract:
Described in detail herein is an autonomous fulfillment system using RFID devices. One or more RFID readers can be disposed throughout a facility can detect RFID tags disposed on or about physical objects picked up by the autonomous robotic devices. The computing system can determine whether there is an error in the physical objects picked up by the autonomous robotic device based on the identifiers. The computing system can instruct the autonomous robotic device to resolve the error. RFID readers can be disposed with respect to storage containers can detect the RFID tags disposed on or about the storage containers and the RFID tags disposed on the physical objects deposited in the storage containers. The computing system determine whether there is an error with the physical objects deposited in the storage containers. The computing system can instruct the autonomous robotic devices to resolve the error.

Claim (Index 1):
An autonomous fulfillment system, the system comprising:\n a computing system programmed to receive requests from disparate sources for physical objects disposed at one or more locations in a facility, combine the requests, and group the physical objects in the requests based on object types or expected object locations, wherein an object RFID tag including a unique object identifier is affixed to each of the physical objects; a plurality of autonomous robot devices in selective communication with the computing system via a communications network; a database communicatively coupled to the computing system and the plurality of autonomous robots, storing information associated with the physical objects; a plurality of delivery containers, each of the plurality of containers having a container RFID tag including a unique container identifier affixed thereto; a plurality of RFID readers distributed throughout the facility, the plurality of RFID readers being operatively coupled to the computing system; wherein at least one of the autonomous robot devices configured to:\n (i) receive instructions from the computing system to retrieve a first group of the physical objects, the instructions include one or more identifiers for the physical objects in the first group of physical objects, \n (ii) query the database using the one or more identifiers for the physical objects in the first group to retrieve information associated with the first group of the physical objects, \n (iii) determine a first set of object locations of the physical objects in the first group based on the retrieved information, \n (iv) navigate autonomously through the facility to the first set of object locations in response to operation of the drive motor by the controller, (v) locate and scan one or more machine readable elements encoded with the one or more identifiers, \n (vi) detect, via at least one image captured by the image capture device, that the first group of physical objects are disposed at the first set of locations, \n (vii) pick up a first quantity of physical objects in the first group using the articulated arm, and \n (viii) deposit the physical objects in the first group in one or more of the plurality of delivery containers, wherein the plurality of delivery containers each correspond to one of the requests and the at least one of the autonomous robot devices deposits the physical objects in the first group in the plurality of delivery containers based on the requests to which the physical objects are associated, \n wherein, at least a first one of the plurality of RFID readers is disposed proximate to the first set of object locations and the computing system is configured to determine that the at least one of the autonomous robot devices retrieved the first group of physical objects in response to the at least the first one of the plurality of RFID readers fails to detect the object RFID tag of each of the physical objects in the first group, wherein, at least a second one of the plurality of RFID readers is disposed proximate to the plurality of delivery containers and the computing system determines that the at least one of the autonomous robot devices deposited the physical objects in one or more the plurality delivery containers, and wherein the computing system determines that that the at least one of the autonomous robot devices deposited one or more the physical objects in a correct one of the delivery containers in response to the at least the second one of the plurality of RFID readers detecting the container RFID tag for the correct container and detecting the object RFID tag for each of the physical objects deposited in the correct container.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.92308
- Patent Class: 235.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15880713', '15880706', '15587113', '15651693', '15878799']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5263852895879476
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4685608496079471
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5206028455899476
- Mean Citation Score: 188.540374
- Max Citation Score: 244.28961
- Similarity Product: 232.97028060826776

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