PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16100704
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["705", "334000"]

Abstract:
In some embodiments, methods and systems are provided that provided for delivering products ordered by a customer of a retailer to a delivery destination designated by the ordering customer by way of having another customer pick up the ordered products at the store location of the retailer and then hand off the picked up products to an autonomous transport vehicle that delivers the handed off products to a delivery destination designated by the ordering customer.

Claim (Index 1):
A system for delivering of products purchased by consumers over the internet from a retailer, the system comprising:\n a retailer computing device including a processor-based control circuit, the retailer computing device configured to:\n receive a first electronic notification indicating availability of a first customer of the retailer for product pick up at a sales facility of the retailer; \n transmit a second electronic notification to a computing device of the at least one other customer of the retailer, the second electronic notification permitting the at least one other customer of the retailer to place at least one order for at least one product to be picked up, at the sales facility of the retailer, by the first customer of the retailer; \n receive a third electronic notification from the customer device of the at least one other customer of the retailer, the third electronic notification indicating the at least one order, placed by the at least one other customer of the retailer for the at least one product to be picked up, at the sales facility of the retailer, by the first customer of the retailer; and \n receive an indication that the first customer of the retailer picked up, at the sales facility of the retailer, at least one package containing the at least one order placed by the at least one other customer of the retailer; and \n a plurality of autonomous transport vehicles each including an interior and configured to receive, at a home location of the first customer, in the interior, the at least one package containing the at least one order picked up, at the sales facility of the retailer, by the first customer of the retailer for the at least one other customer of the retailer; wherein the retailer computing device is configured to:\n analyze at least a physical location, a maximum cargo capacity, and a delivery route of each of the autonomous transport vehicles to determine an availability ranking of the autonomous transport vehicles for delivering the at least one order to the at least one customer of the retailer; \n select the autonomous transport vehicle determined by the retailer computing device to have a highest availability ranking for delivering the at least one order to the at least one customer of the retailer, and \n transmit delivery route instructions to the selected autonomous transport vehicle; and \n wherein the selected autonomous transport vehicle is configured to:\n detect, via at least one sensor of the selected autonomous transport vehicle, a product hand-off area at the home location of the first customer where the at least one package containing the at least one order picked up by the first customer of the retailer at the sales facility of the retailer is dropped off by the first customer of the retailer; \n identify, via at least one sensor of the selected autonomous transport vehicle, the at least one package containing the at least one order picked up by the first customer of the retailer for the at least one other customer of the retailer; \n load the at least one package identified in the product hand-off area into the interior of the selected autonomous transport vehicle at the product hand-off area; and \n deliver, based on the delivery instructions received from the retailer computing device, the at least one package loaded into the interior of the selected autonomous transport vehicle at the product hand-off area to the geographic location of the at least one other customer of the retailer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.75
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15837342', '16059488', '15490269', '15413776', '16049420']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.100200421300722
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4724682040954176
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1374271995801916
- Mean Citation Score: 152.77166599999995
- Max Citation Score: 174.26419
- Similarity Product: 129.3320293858111

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

Dataset: test