PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15947130
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["703", "001000"]

Abstract:
This document generally describes simulating warehouse automation designs and evaluating the results of such simulations to optimize automated warehouse designs. Warehouse automation can be simulated, for example, to determine an optimal warehouse automation design given a variety of parameters that are specific to the warehouse, such as the expected customer inventory demands over time, the layout of the warehouse, and/or the specific automation features (e.g., machines) that are possible within the warehouse. Such warehouse simulations can be repeatedly run and warehouse automation designs can be modified to identify an optimal warehouse automation design that will, for example, maximize the efficiency of the warehouse by minimizing pallet place and pull times, minimizing truck load/unload times, and minimizing/eliminating failures during which the warehouse is not able to meet threshold performance metrics.

Claim (Index 21):
The method of  claim 17 , further comprising, in response to determining that the current automation design failed:\n modifying, by the automated warehouse design simulator, one or more of the automation components in the current automation design to generate a revised automation design for the warehouse; generating, by the automated warehouse design simulator, a revised warehouse automation model for the revised automation design; repeating the chronological simulation, detecting, recording, and assessing with the revised warehouse automation model and the same historical inventory data; determining, by the automated warehouse design simulator, whether the revised automation design for the warehouse is an improvement over the previous automation design for the warehouse based on comparison of the performance assessments; and outputting information identifying an optimal automation design for the warehouse based on the determination.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8
- Patent Class: 703.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15947073', '15280985', '13836305', '15255696', '15244525']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2590105244079999
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.514475468219274
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2845570187891273
- Mean Citation Score: 249.747656
- Max Citation Score: 297.04178
- Similarity Product: 211.53719928389552

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