PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16001462
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["705", "005000"]

Abstract:
Virtualization methods and systems for optimizing the availability of items in an inventory of items in a reservation system. The items are classified into item types and an item type is defined by a requestable set of at least one characteristic. Reservations may be received for a set of at least one characteristic that is a subset of an item type. After a reservation has been accepted, all the availabilities of the requestable sets of at least one characteristic in the inventory are updated. The reservation system may be a hotel reservation system and item types may be hotel room types or other bookable products. The reservation system may be a flight reservation system and item types may be bookable places on flights.

Claim (Index 5):
The method of  claim 4 , wherein generating the initial availabilities comprises, at the server:\n constructing a graph including:\n (i) a source node; \n (ii) a target node; \n (iii) respective item type nodes corresponding to each of the item types; and \n (iv) respective partial set nodes corresponding to each of the partial sets of characteristics; \n for each item type node, creating an item type arc from the item type node to the target node, and storing a capacity associated with the item type arc equal to the inventory count corresponding to the set of characteristics defining the item type; and for each partial set node, creating partial set arcs from the partial set node to each item type node corresponding to one of the plurality of item types defined by the partial set of characteristics, and storing respective capacities associated with the partial set arcs that sum to the inventory count corresponding to the partial set of characteristics.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.24138
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['09932263', '09487361', '12538403', '12644875', '09589037']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1239291066945798
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4905347709076442
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1605896731158863
- Mean Citation Score: 189.590318
- Max Citation Score: 218.03305
- Similarity Product: 155.4100259736687

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

Dataset: test