PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16133108
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["700", "232000"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems are disclosed including a semi-automated propane canister distribution system for distributing and exchanging propane canisters, comprising a system controller; one or more cabinet system having a cabinet controller and a cabinet with a first compartment separated from a second compartment, the first compartment having a first door and the second compartment having a second door, the first door and the second door having an open position and a closed position with a locked state and an unlocked state; a detection device; a remote display; and a remote controller device in communication with the system controller and/or the cabinet controller.

Claim (Index 7):
A method for semi-automated distribution of one or more canister, comprising:\n receiving, with one or more of a remote controller device, a Point-of-Sale device, and a remote management entity, information indicative of details of a purchase transaction for the purchase of one or more substantially full propane canisters by a purchaser and of a return of one or more substantially empty propane canister; transmitting, with the one or more of the remote controller device, the Point-of-Sale device, and the remote management entity, signals indicative of the details of the purchase transaction to a system controller, the details comprising a number of substantially full canisters to be removed and a number of substantially empty canisters to be returned; determining, with the system controller, location of inventory of propane canisters within one or more cabinet system to fulfill the purchase transaction, each cabinet system comprising:\n a cabinet controller in communication with the system controller; \n a cabinet having a first compartment separated from a second compartment, the first compartment having a first door and the second compartment having a second door, the first door and the second door having an open position and a closed position with a locked state and an unlocked state; \n a human-machine interface in communication with one or more or the system controller and the cabinet controller; \n one or more unit detection device in communication with the cabinet controller for monitoring removal of substantially full propane canisters from the cabinet and placement of substantially empty propane canisters in the cabinet; \n determining, with the cabinet controller, a presence of the purchaser proximate to the one or more cabinet systems; transmitting, from the system controller through the cabinet controller to the human-machine interface of the one or more cabinet systems, instructions for the purchaser as to the location of propane canisters to fulfill the purchase transaction based at least in part on the determined location of inventory of propane canisters; detecting, with the unit detection device, a presence of a substantially empty propane canister; transmitting, from the unit detection device through the cabinet controller to the system controller, signals indicative of the return of the substantially empty propane canister in the first compartment of one of the cabinets; transmitting, from the system controller to the cabinet controller, a signal indicative of instructions to change one or the first door and the second door from the locked state to the unlocked state; detecting, with the unit detection device, a removal of a substantially full propane canister from the cabinet of the cabinet system; and updating, with the system controller, the location of inventory of propane canisters, based on the detection of the return of the substantially empty propane canister and the removal of the substantially full propane canister.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29167
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15630701', '14104866', '10011173', '10007059', '12777330']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3700809051562344
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5688259430562757
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3899554089462385
- Mean Citation Score: 234.188114
- Max Citation Score: 448.17676
- Similarity Product: 432.69304934374566

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

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