PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16145893
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["705", "039000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for mobile-initiated in-store return of products are provided. An example system can include: an OMM configured to store in a first database completed transactions and associated electronic receipts for customers; a mobile device having a mobile application installed thereon and configured to query and receive from the OMNI selection of products for return; a RMM configured to apply rules to validate the return based on the information about the selected product; and a return station configured to verify and complete the return.

Claim (Index 15):
A method implemented by a computer system for a mobile-initiated in-store return of a purchased item through a mobile application based on a user identification and an electronic receipt associated with the purchased item, the computer system comprising a portable device having the mobile application installed thereon, a return station positioned in a return location in a store and, and a computing device; and the method comprising:\n launching the mobile application based on the user identification; determining from a first database, via the mobile application, the available purchased items for the return; receiving from the first database, via the mobile application, the electronic receipt of the purchased item; generating from a second database, via the mobile application, validating information associated with the in-store return; saving return information to the second database, the return information including at least one of the purchased item, the electronic receipt, or the validating information; directing, via the mobile application, a user associated with the user identification to the return location in the store, the user returning the purchased item in the store, pairing the portable device with the return station; receiving, by the return station, the return information; printing, by the return station, a return label to be placed by the user on the purchased item; receiving, by the return station, the labeled purchased item; receiving, by the computing device, an input indicative of receipt of the labeled purchased item; updating the first database to indicate that the labeled purchased item is received, receiving by the portable device, after updating the first database, a first notification indicating that the in-store return is being processed; and receiving by the portable device, after the in-store return is finished, a second notification indicating that the in-store return has been completed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.54237
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12929193', '09509021', '10465562', '11018348', '10750935']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1184537049374922
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4729938453196413
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1539077189757071
- Mean Citation Score: 176.002558
- Max Citation Score: 187.77438
- Similarity Product: 144.25131929439425

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 0
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

Dataset: test