PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15990831
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["036", "00300R"]

Abstract:
A ventilation apparatus including a pump, a switching unit, and a fluid diffuser is provided. The pump attached to the footwear pumps fluid into and exhausts fluid from a cavity of the footwear. The switching unit in communication with the pump selectively changes modes of operation of the pump. The fluid diffuser connected to the pump within the cavity of the footwear includes a feed pipe for transferring the fluid pumped from the pump to the cavity of the footwear during a pump mode of operation and to transfer the fluid in the cavity of the footwear to an ambient environment external to the footwear during an exhaust mode of operation, for ventilating the footwear. In one or more embodiments, the fluid diffuser includes a diffusing member with one or more openings and/or a fluid distribution channel member for transferring the fluid to and from the cavity of the footwear.

Claim (Index 10):
The method for ventilating the footwear of  claim 9 , wherein said cavity comprises an entire interior space of said footwear, wherein said fluid diffuser further comprises a fluid distribution channel member attached within said sole of said footwear and operably connected to and in fluid communication with said second electric pump within said sole of said footwear, wherein said fluid distribution channel member comprises channels in fluid communication with said one or more openings of said diffusing member to allow said fluid received from said one or more openings of said diffusing member to be transferred to said second electric pump, and to allow said exhaust fluid pumped by said second electric pump to be transferred to said one or more openings of said diffusing member, into said feed pipe, and out to said ambient environment external to said footwear via said first electric pump, for ventilating said footwear.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.60656
- Patent Class: 36.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14596128', '15700413', '12142881', '11995293', '11265663']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7037316494305618
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6038147985917499
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6937399643466806
- Mean Citation Score: 351.550302
- Max Citation Score: 586.9342
- Similarity Product: 573.6720437670232

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