PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15880722
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["700", "216000"]

Abstract:
Described in detail herein is an automated fulfillment system with automatic exception handling. A computing system can transmit instructions to an autonomous robot device to retrieve physical objects disposed in facility. An autonomous robot device can navigate to the location of the physical objects and pick up a first quantity of physical objects. The autonomous robot device can pick up the physical objects and can determine a set of attributes associated with the picked up physical objects. The autonomous robot device detect an error with the physical objects picked up by the autonomous robot device based on the set of attributes. The autonomous robot device can resolve the error with the physical objects that were picked up by the autonomous robot device. For example, autonomous robot device can discard the physical objects. The autonomous robot device can pick up replacement physical objects.

Claim (Index 10):
An autonomous object retrieval method including autonomous robot devices, the method comprising:\n receiving, via a computing system, requests from disparate sources for physical objects disposed at one or more locations in a facility; combining, via the computing system, the requests; grouping, via the computing system, the physical objects in the requests based on object types or expected object locations; receiving, via at least one autonomous robot device of a plurality of autonomous robot devices in selective communication with the computing system via a communications network, at least one of the plurality of autonomous robot devices including a controller, a drive motor, an articulated arm, a reader and an image capturing device, 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; querying, via the at least one autonomous robot device, a database operatively coupled to the computing system and the plurality of autonomous robot devices, using the one or more identifiers for the physical objects in the first group to retrieve information associated with the first group of physical objects; determining, via the at least one autonomous robot device, a first set of object locations of the physical objects in the first group based on the retrieved information; navigating, via the at least one autonomous robot device, autonomously through the facility to the first set of object locations in response to operation of the drive motor by the controller; locating and scanning, via the at least one autonomous robot device, one or more machine readable elements encoded with the one or more identifiers; detecting, via at least one image captured by the image capture device of the at least one autonomous robot device, that the first group of physical objects are disposed at the first set of locations; picking up, via the at least one autonomous robot device, a first quantity of physical objects in the first group using the articulated arm; autonomously detecting, via the at least one autonomous robot device, a set of attributes of at least one of the physical objects in the first group from the first set of object locations using one or more sensors; detecting, via the at least one autonomous robot device, a defect or decomposition associated with the at least one of the physical objects based on the set of attributes; discarding, via the at least one autonomous robot device, the at least one of the physical objects; and picking up, via the at least one autonomous robot device, a replacement physical object from the first set of object locations for the at least one of the physical objects discarded by the at least one of the autonomous robot devices.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.60345
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15880706', '15880713', '15880719', '15587113', '15651693']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4305353891271357
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4890930262052764
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4363911528349498
- Mean Citation Score: 246.82099
- Max Citation Score: 291.61688
- Similarity Product: 274.70773367521286

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