PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16133108
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["700", "232000"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems are disclosed including a semi-automated propane canister distribution system for distributing and exchanging propane canisters, comprising a system controller; one or more cabinet system having a cabinet controller and a cabinet with a first compartment separated from a second compartment, the first compartment having a first door and the second compartment having a second door, the first door and the second door having an open position and a closed position with a locked state and an unlocked state; a detection device; a remote display; and a remote controller device in communication with the system controller and/or the cabinet controller.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for semi-automated distribution of one or more canister, comprising:\n receiving, by a remote controller device located in a store, information indicative of a purchase transaction from a purchaser for a return of a first canister and pickup of a second canister, the second canister stored in a second compartment of a cabinet system located outside of the store, the second compartment separated from a first compartment of the cabinet system, the first compartment having a first door and the second compartment having a second door, the first and second door having an open position and a closed position with a locked state and an unlocked state; receiving, by the remote controller device, a signal indicative of the purchaser being physically located in proximity to the cabinet system; transmitting a signal, with the remote controller device, to the cabinet system to change the first door from the locked state to the unlocked state; and transmitting, from the cabinet system, a real-time visual feed from at least one unit detection device of the cabinet system to a remote display located in the store, the unit detection device positioned to have a field of view encompassing at least a portion of an interior of the cabinet system when the first door or the second door is in the open position; monitoring, by an operator of the remote display, the purchaser returning the first canister to the first compartment; transmitting a second signal, with the remote controller device, to the cabinet system to change the second door from the locked state to the unlocked state; and monitoring, using the remote display, the purchaser retrieving the second canister from the second compartment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29167
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15630701', '14104866', '10011173', '10007059', '12777330']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3694597071203156
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.570158700936573
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3895296065019413
- Mean Citation Score: 234.188114
- Max Citation Score: 448.17676
- Similarity Product: 442.9727727435873

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