PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16059554
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["340", "933000"]

Abstract:
A method and server for generating a traffic prediction for a target zone is provided. The traffic is caused by feedback and non-feedback vehicles in the target zone. Feedback vehicles are associated with devices that provide signals. The method comprises: tracking signals of devices entering a sample zone which comprise coordinates of devices; processing the signals tracked for the devices, the processing comprises: determining an actual number of feedback vehicles in the sample zone; computing a fill rate parameter which is indicative of an estimated total number of vehicles in the sample zone; and determining a feedback ratio which is indicative of an estimated proportion of feedback and non-feedback vehicles in the sample zone; determining an actual number of feedback vehicles entering the target zone; and generating the traffic prediction for the target zone which is indicative of an estimated number of non-feedback vehicles causing traffic in the target zone.

Claim (Index 15):
A method of determining an exposure parameter for a visual point of interest (VPOI), the VPOI being visible to a plurality of observers located in an exposure zone at a given moment in time, the exposure zone being defined by first boundary coordinates having been geometrically predetermined based on at least a location of the VPOI, the plurality of observers comprising feedback observers and non-feedback observers, each of the feedback observers being associated with a respective navigational device, the navigational devices being communicatively coupled to a server by a communication network and configured to provide respective feedback signals to the server, the method being executable on the server and comprising:\n tracking, by the server, a feedback signal of each one of a first plurality of navigational devices entering a traffic sample zone, the traffic sample zone being defined by second boundary coordinates having been geometrically predetermined, the traffic sample zone being associated with traffic characteristics, the traffic characteristics being indicative of a maximum possible number of observers that can be located in the traffic sample zone at once, each feedback signal comprising positional coordinates of a respective one of the first plurality of navigational devices; processing, by the server, the feedback signals tracked for the first plurality of navigational devices, the processing comprising:\n determining, by the server, an actual number of feedback observers located in the traffic sample zone at a first moment in time by comparing the positional coordinates of each one of the first plurality of navigational devices against the second boundary coordinates at the first moment in time; \n computing, by the server, a fill rate parameter of the traffic sample zone at the first moment in time based on (i) the positional coordinates of at least one navigational device within the second boundary coordinates, (ii) the second boundary coordinates and (iii) the traffic characteristics, the fill rate parameter being indicative of an estimated total number of observers located in the traffic sample zone at the first moment in time; and \n determining, by the server, a feedback ratio associated with the traffic sample zone and being a ratio between (i) the estimated total number of observers located in the traffic sample zone and (ii) the actual number of feedback observers located in the traffic sample zone, the feedback ratio being indicative of an estimated proportion of feedback observers and of non-feedback observers located in the traffic sample zone; \n determining, by the server, an actual number of feedback observers located in the exposure zone based on a feedback signal of each one of a second plurality of navigational devices entering the exposure zone; and determining, by the server, the exposure parameter for the VPOI based on (i) the actual number of feedback observers in the exposure zone and (ii) the feedback ratio, the exposure parameter being indicative of an estimated number of observers that possibly viewed the VPOI.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.84211
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15829456', '14666588', '15272802', '14646184', '12749699']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5947694797451525
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6217877848140502
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5974713102520424
- Mean Citation Score: 225.738286
- Max Citation Score: 537.22217
- Similarity Product: 502.7436265069973

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