PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15917250
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["700", "236000"]

Abstract:
A sales apparatus includes a receptacle; a column that houses a plurality of goods to be sold and transports the plurality of goods to the receptacle; a memory in which inventory information indicating an inventory status of the column of the plurality of goods is stored; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: update the inventory information each time the plurality of goods are transported from the column to the receptacle, and when referencing the inventory information and detecting that, out of a plurality of specific goods in inventory among the plurality of goods, a plurality of target goods to be subject to selling processing at a first selling price are out of inventory, suppress transportation processing of the plurality of specific goods from the column to the receptacle even when the plurality of specific goods in inventory remain.

Claim (Index 13):
The control method according to  claim 12 ,\n wherein the second selling price is lower than the first selling price.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.60345
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11076732', '12779450', '12145480', '15402059', '10891458']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4507863615415408
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5044927666353473
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4561570020509214
- Mean Citation Score: 225.60501
- Max Citation Score: 229.54773
- Similarity Product: 129.8013652352214

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

Dataset: test