PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15916829
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["705", "029000"]

Abstract:
A perpetual inventory (PI) value associated with the selected product and a last PI adjustment time that indicates when the retail store last adjusted the PI value are received. The PI value of the selected product is compared to the back room quantity value of the selected product, and a second time when the back room quantity value becomes greater than the PI value for the selected product is determined. An adjustment to the PI of the selected product is blocked when an indication of upcoming inventory adjustment for the selected product is received. An adjustment to the PI value of the selected product is also blocked when the PI adjustment time is after the second time. When the back room quantity value is greater than the PI value and the adjustment to the PI value is unblocked, the PI value is adjusted to be the back room quantity value.

Claim (Index 9):
A method for managing perpetual inventory (PI) values of products in a back room or other area of a retail store, the back room not being accessible to the general public, the method comprising:\n obtaining product scans of products by one or more sensors at a retail store, the products being disposed at a back room of the retail store; transmit the scans from the retail store to a central location via a network; at the central location, storing in a database a perpetual inventory (PI) value for a selected product, the scans, and a last PI adjustment time, the last PI adjustment time indicating when the PI value was last adjusted; at a control circuit at the central location: obtaining the PI value and the last PI adjustment time from the database, obtaining the scans and analyze the scans to determine a back room quantity value for a selected product in the back room; comparing the PI value of the selected product to the back room quantity value of the selected product, and determine a second time when the back room quantity value becomes greater than the PI value for the selected product; blocking an adjustment to the PI of the selected product when an indication of upcoming inventory adjustment for the selected product has been received at the interface; blocking the adjustment to the PI value of the selected product when the last PI adjustment time is after the second time; when the back room quantity value is greater than the PI value and the adjustment to the PI value is unblocked, adjusting the PI value to be the back room quantity value, and transmit the adjusted PI value to the retail store via the interface and network.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.11765
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15313870', '15862406', '15875760', '15202897', '15490102']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.0985881065922536
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4758685806221367
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1363161539952419
- Mean Citation Score: 140.56385
- Max Citation Score: 159.79425
- Similarity Product: 111.05252610169352

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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