PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15866877
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["340", "010100"]

Abstract:
Devices, methods, and software are disclosed for reading RFID tags located in defined spatial locations. In one illustrative embodiment, a system can comprise a processor, a memory, and an RFID reading device including at least one radio frequency (RF) antenna. The system can be configured to read a first plurality of RFID tags attached to items disposed within a first spatial zone and read a second plurality of RFID tags attached to items disposed within a second spatial zone. The system can be further configured to produce a list of identifiers of RFID tags which belong to the second plurality of RFID tags and do not belong to the first plurality of RFID tags. In some embodiments, the system can be further configured, responsive to successfully decoding decodable indicia attached to an item, to match the item to an RFID tag belonging to the list.

Claim (Index 1):
A radio frequency identification (\u201cRFID\u201d) reader of a point-of-sale (POS) system, comprising:\n a first radio frequency (RF) antenna configured to transmit power in a first spatial zone in order to read a first set of RFID tags disposed only within the first spatial zone; a second RF antenna configured to transmit power in a second spatial zone in order to read the first set of RFID tags, at a second time wherein the second spatial zone is upstream and adjacent to the first spatial zone, wherein the first set of RFID tags are attached to items to be purchased at a point of sale location of an establishment, wherein the point of sale location comprises the first spatial zone and the second spatial zone, wherein a list of identifiers of cleared RFID tags is produced listing only RFID tags of the first set of RFID tags that indicate that they have been scanned, at time between said first and second times, by a decodable indicia reading at the point of sale location, wherein the list is produced based on the first set of RFID tags being moved, from the first spatial zone to the second spatial zone based on the readings by the first and second RF antennas at the first and second times, to enable the POS system to identify read RFID tags of the first set of RFID tags that are not listed on the list and trigger an alert.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22222
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13743956', '13451761', '14982839', '15160342', '14731490']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6964795573782184
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5762488682577261
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6844564884661692
- Mean Citation Score: 285.62132600000007
- Max Citation Score: 455.2511
- Similarity Product: 417.0683247945845

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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