PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16234406
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["235", "472010"]

Abstract:
A network based system and method for managing inventory is disclosed. A smartphone device is connected to a portable barcode scanner using a communication connection. A scanner adapter application on the smartphone device receives output date comprising order data, and parses the order data, passing it to an upload application. The smartphone device further comprises an order management application to take order data from the scanner adapter application and smartphone user data entry to access a backend server system to retrieve and collect detailed order data in support of order submission. The detailed order data contains data elements necessary for completion and submission of orders. An API configured to receive the at least part of the order data from the upload application processes the order information into an electronic order, and sends the electronic order to a vendor server.

Claim (Index 1):
A network based vendor-managed inventory system, comprising:\n a portable barcode scanner configured to output data according to at least one of an HID, CDC, Honeywell API or SPP protcol, the output data reflecting results of scanning a barcode; a smartphone device, physically removed from the portable barcode scanner, having an input port through which an external device can provide data to the smartphone device for processing, the smartphone device being incapable of recognizing and parsing data, received via the input port, when the data is configured according to the HID, CDC Honeywell API or SPP protocol; a communication connection connecting the smartphone device and the portable barcode scanner to each other via the input port; a scanner adapter application, operating on the smartphone device, which receives the output data from the portable barcode scanner via the input port, the output data comprising order data relating to a supply item stocked in a bin and configured according to one of the HID, CDC, Honeywell API or SPP protocols, the scanner adaptor application being configured to parse the order data; an upload application operating on the smartphone device, the upload application having a current data field that receives at least part of the order data; an API configured to receive order information including the at least part of the order data, from the upload application on the smartphone device, receive and compile the order information as at least one order batch whereas each order batch is a data structure comprising scanned barcodes, convert the at least one order batch into an electronic supply order, store the at least one order batch in a data repository associated with the API, and send the electronic supply order to a vendor server; the API further being configured to automatically create an electronic supply order for one or more batches containing scanned barcodes on the vendor server; an interface through which the smartphone device can connect to a backend server via a network; the backend server configured to retain ordering data, update ordering data, and provide sales metrics to an order management application operating on the smartphone device; and an order management application, operating on the smartphone device, which uses the ordering data from the scanner adapter application to access the backend server and complete an order.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97333
- Patent Class: 235.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15793058', '13939854', '15191159', '13783127', '14182119']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.52299595056364
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.619239469344229
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5326203024416989
- Mean Citation Score: 296.59345399999995
- Max Citation Score: 563.2855
- Similarity Product: 553.3815125623345

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

Dataset: test