PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15905985
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["700", "218000"]

Abstract:
It is disclosed a method ( 70 ) for operating a storage and order-picking system ( 10 ) in which a plurality of manipulators ( 40 ) process a plurality of picking/storing orders in accordance with a manipulator-to-handling-unit principle, wherein the system ( 10 ) comprises a provision zone ( 12 ), a picking zone ( 14 ), a plurality of provision units ( 42, 62 ) in the provision zone, a plurality of, particularly stationary arranged, transfer locations ( 46 ) in the picking zone ( 14 ), a DTS ( 18 ) including a plurality of DTVs ( 20 ), and a controlling device ( 32 ), and wherein the method ( 70 ) comprises the following steps of: analyzing (S 10 ) the plurality of picking/storing orders by the controlling device ( 32 ) for determining retrieval/delivery locations in the provision zone ( 12 ); setting (S 12 ) of transfer actions ( 48 ) by selecting for each of the retrieval/delivery locations one or more of the transfer locations ( 46 ) in the picking zone ( 14 ) as delivery/retrieval location and by assigning the same thereto, wherein the delivery/retrieval location is located within an action zone ( 72 ) extending around the respective retrieval/delivery location and moving dynamically with the respective manipulator ( 40 ); generating (S 14 ) an action order for each of the manipulators ( 40 ) by selecting some of the transfer actions ( 48 ), and setting a, particularly unidirectional, moving path ( 74 ) along which the respective manipulator ( 40 ) moves between the selected retrieval/delivery locations throughout the, preferably entire, picking zone ( 14 ); and generating (S 16 ) transport orders for the DTVs ( 20 ) so that each of the manipulators ( 40 ), during performance of its action order, can perform its transfer actions ( 48 ) within its action zone ( 72 ), preferably without interruption.

Claim (Index 26):
The method of  claim 17 , wherein the transport orders are generated such that the handling units arrive in a sequenced manner and/or in a sorted manner at the respective destination location.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.12389
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15429406', '13279781', '13783904', '14845730', '14979775']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4543747583549803
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4906616224046528
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4580034447599476
- Mean Citation Score: 215.617632
- Max Citation Score: 225.64458
- Similarity Product: 153.4752751438558

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

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