PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16389550
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["705", "021000"]

Abstract:
In some embodiments, a method and apparatus involve: providing a plurality of products that are each associated with a respective radio frequency identification tag; using radio frequency identification technology to automatically identify specific products in a group of products collected by a shopper; and evaluating whether or not to obtain payment from the shopper based on the radio frequency identification of products in the group. Based on the result of the evaluation, either payment is obtained from the shopper on the basis of the radio frequency identification of products in the group, or else the products in the group are audited, and then payment is obtained on the basis of the products identified by the audit.

Claim (Index 1):
A method, comprising:\n providing a plurality of products that are each associated with a respective radio frequency identification tag; assigning a business value selected by a seller from a plurality of values, where each of the plurality of values represents a different threshold level of a current willingness of the seller to tolerate shrinkage ranging between a willingness to tolerate a minimum level of shrinkage, one or more intermediate levels of shrinkage and a maximum level of shrinkage, automatically selecting, by a computer system and based on the assigned business value, a value for one or more of a plurality of thresholds comprising a tag reading difficulty threshold, a tag count threshold, a product weight threshold, a product weight and tag count range threshold, and a product weight differential threshold,\n wherein each of the plurality of thresholds comprises multiple selectable values, the assigned business value defining the value for each threshold, \n using a scale coupled to the computer system and located proximate to a point of sale (POS) checkout area to output a signal corresponding to a total weight including at least a container and a group of products collected by a shopper within the container as the shopper enters the POS checkout area; using one or more cameras coupled to the computer system and located proximate to the POS checkout area to output digital signaling corresponding to the container and the group of products collected by the shopper as the shopper enters the POS checkout area; using radio frequency identification technology obtained from at least one RFID tag reader coupled to the computer system and located proximate to the POS checkout area in real time as the shopper enters the POS checkout area to automatically identify specific products within the group of the products collected by the shopper; and determining, using the computer system and data obtained from each of the using steps and according to a set of rules, a value for each of a plurality of properties relating to the identified specific products collected by the shopper, wherein the plurality of properties comprises two or more of a tag reading difficulty, a tag count, a product weight, a product weight and tag count range, and a product weight differential; evaluating, using the computer system and according to the set of rules, whether to obtain payment from the shopper based on the radio frequency identification of products in the group and as a function of the business value assigned by the seller, and wherein the evaluating comprises applying, using the computer system and according to the set of rules, in real time the one or more of the plurality of thresholds having been automatically selected based on the assigned business value to one or more of the determined values of the plurality of properties of the identified products collected by the shopper, and based on the result of the evaluating, carrying out one of:\n obtaining payment from the shopper based on the radio frequency identification of products in the group; and \n auditing the products in the group, and then obtaining payment from the shopper based on the products identified by the auditing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 65.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11864
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14301225', '12267068', '15175997', '10624324', '11264599']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1110374862571138
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.57000406024129
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1569341436555315
- Mean Citation Score: 287.99258
- Max Citation Score: 459.62863
- Similarity Product: 452.4258377353109

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

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