PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16152026
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["340", "573100"]

Abstract:
Systems, methods, and computer code products for monitoring the behavior, health, and/or characteristics of an animal are disclosed herein. In one implementation, the animal is positioned inside a waste container placed on a system that is adapted to determine, record and communicate over a network various animal health parameters. These parameters can be processed to determine trends, statistics and changes of animal physiological functions. The results can be used to access animal health conditions and issue warnings, alarms, messages, and other notifications to designated caretakers. These notifications may be displayed using various means such as computers and/or mobile devices. Data retrieval and review capability can provide improved understanding of an animal's health conditions and facilitate early illness detection.

Claim (Index 21):
A method for monitoring the behavior of an animal, the method comprising:\n detecting, with a sensor, a presence of the animal; measuring, with a measuring device, a characteristic of the animal when the presence of the animal is detected; storing the measured characteristic of the animal on a storage device; calculating derived data from the measured characteristic, wherein at least a portion of the derived data is selected from the group consisting of (i) an average rate of food consumption expressed in weight of food consumed per unit of time, (ii) a maximum rate of food consumption expressed in weight of food consumed per unit of time, (iii) a minimum rate of food consumption expressed in weight of food consumed per unit of time, (iv) an average rate of water consumption expressed in weight of food consumed per unit of time, (v) a maximum rate of water consumption expressed in weight of food consumed per unit of time, (vi) a minimum rate of water consumption expressed in weight of food consumed per unit of time, and (vii) combinations thereof; comparing at least one of the measured characteristic or the derived data to stored threshold alert data; and sending, via a network, an alert associated with the animal to be displayed on a remote display device when the measured characteristic or the derived data exceeds the threshold alert data.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.56977
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13481605', '14451169', '14602693', '15245083', '15901870']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7334953724797263
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5646434213758664
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7166101773693403
- Mean Citation Score: 370.19961
- Max Citation Score: 434.5158
- Similarity Product: 385.39643748600486

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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