PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15877187
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["701", "001000"]

Abstract:
A system for monitoring shopping carts or other human-propelled carts includes wireless access points that communicate on a wireless network with wheel assemblies of the carts. The system is capable of monitoring a path followed by a cart in a store or building, and using the path (optionally together with other criteria) to determine whether to authorize the cart to exit. For example, if a shopping cart fails to pass through a checkout lane of a store, the system may perform an action that blocks or inhibits the shipping cart from exiting the store. The wheel assemblies may include LEDs or other visual indicators that alert store personnel when a wheel assembly is in a particular state.

Claim (Index 7):
A wheel assembly configured for attachment to a shopping cart, the wheel assembly comprising:\n a wheel attached to a caster; a wireless transceiver; a light-emitting diode (LED) that is visible from a location external to the wheel assembly; and a controller connected to the wireless transceiver and the LED, the controller programmed to use the wireless transceiver to communicate bi-directionally on a wireless network, and programmed to respond to commands received on the wireless network by performing actions that change a state of the wheel assembly; wherein the controller is additionally programmed to strobe the LED to visually indicate to store personnel that the wheel assembly is in a particular state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7027
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12200735', '11277016', '15093545', '13857006', '14699221']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5757238029306454
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.532147179070143
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5713661405445951
- Mean Citation Score: 409.937632
- Max Citation Score: 419.5738
- Similarity Product: 306.73338392255306

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