PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15886427
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["340", "005600"]

Abstract:
In accordance with one or more embodiments, authorization and/or authentication protects against unauthorized use of devices and/or features. Devices managing authorization and/or authentication may be connected to communications services, such as the internet or a social network. A user using the communication services may configure a system to authenticate and/or authorize a future action. An authorizer may authorize and/or authenticate by responding via one or more devices and/or social networks to allow an individual to perform an action on a device, as a way of controlling what actions can be taken and who they can be taken by.

Claim (Index 1):
A method comprising:\n determining, by a computing device, an authorization group based on an association with a user, wherein the authorization group comprises a hierarchy of members assigned to authorize an action out of a plurality of actions; sending, by the computing device, a set of messages to a plurality of members in the authorization group, wherein the set of messages comprise additional content relating to an authorization request for the action; receiving, by the computing device, at least one message from at least one member of the authorization group; determining, based on a tier of the hierarchy associated with the at least one member, a response weight for the at least one message; and determining, by the computing device, based on the at least one message and one or more approval criteria, whether to approve the authorization request.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 51.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.61538
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15174989', '14398999', '12180903', '11680402', '15410655']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.670630837788624
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4698468148782826
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6505524354975899
- Mean Citation Score: 137.039018
- Max Citation Score: 142.8545
- Similarity Product: 109.71902621307969

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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