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 1):
A method for handling reservation requests corresponding to an inventory of items classified as a plurality of item types, each item having one of the plurality of item types, and each item type defined by a respective set of characteristics, the method comprising:\n obtaining, at a server, initial availabilities for (i) each set of characteristics, and (ii) each of a plurality of partial sets of characteristics, wherein each partial set of characteristics comprises fewer characteristics than a given set of characteristics that defines a particular item type, and wherein each partial set of characteristics corresponds to more than one of the plurality of the item types; obtaining, at the server, a record of existing reservations for (i) each set of characteristics, and (ii) each partial set of characteristics; at the server, based on the initial availabilities and the record of existing reservations, generating and storing updated availabilities for (i) each set of characteristics, and (ii) each partial set of characteristics; receiving, at the server from a client computing device, a reservation request containing a selected subset of characteristics corresponding to one of the sets of characteristics, or one of the partial sets of characteristics; determining, at the server, whether the reservation request can be accommodated based on the updated availabilities; responsive to accommodating the reservation request, updating the record of existing reservations according to the reservation request, without allocating one of the items to the reservation request; and repeating the obtaining of initial availabilities, the obtaining of the record of existing reservations, and the generating and storing of updated availabilities.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.24138
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['09932263', '09487361', '12538403', '12644875', '09589037']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1104992143357248
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4996149225892805
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1494107851610803
- Mean Citation Score: 189.590318
- Max Citation Score: 218.03305
- Similarity Product: 134.65663204730748

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