PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16443524
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["221", "001000"]

Abstract:
A method and system for encouraging the selection of healthy products with a vending machine are provided. The method includes providing a vending machine that displays an inventory of products. Each product of the inventory of products includes a dispensing countdown time displayed on the vending machine. The method also includes receiving a first customer selection of a first product from the inventory of products, where the first product has a first dispensing countdown time. Additionally, the method includes actuating a countdown timer to count down to zero seconds from the first dispensing countdown time. The method also includes dispensing the first product once the countdown timer reaches zero seconds. The first product is only dispensed if a customer does not select a second product having a second dispensing countdown time before the first dispensing countdown time counts down to zero seconds.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for encouraging the selection of healthy products with a vending machine, comprising:\n providing a vending machine that displays an inventory of products, each product of the inventory of products comprising a dispensing countdown time displayed on the vending machine; receiving a first customer selection of a first product from the inventory of products, the first product having a first dispensing countdown time; actuating a countdown timer to count down to zero seconds from the first dispensing countdown time; and dispensing the first product once the countdown timer reaches zero se

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.47541
- Patent Class: 221.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15505383', '14335855', '15609245', '14269741', '15360503']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.738653839875252
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5601951030514991
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7208079661928768
- Mean Citation Score: 245.159902
- Max Citation Score: 445.49658
- Similarity Product: 324.3134313404095

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

Dataset: test