PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16269262
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["705", "028000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses are provided for use in monitoring product placement within a shopping facility. Some embodiments provide an apparatus configured to determine product placement conditions within a shopping facility, comprising: a transceiver configured to wirelessly receive communications; a product monitoring control circuit coupled with the transceiver; a memory coupled with the control circuit and storing computer instructions that when executed by the control circuit cause the control circuit to: obtain a composite three-dimensional (3D) scan mapping corresponding to at least a select area of the shopping facility and based on a series of 3D scan data; evaluate the 3D scan mapping to identify multiple product depth distances; and identify, from the evaluation of the 3D scan mapping, when one or more of the multiple product depth distances is greater than a predefined depth distance threshold from the reference offset distance of the product support structure.

Claim (Index 3):
The retail system of  claim 1 , wherein the control circuit is further configured to:\n identify, from the 3D scan mapping and relative to each of multiple rows of items of the first product supported by the product support structure, whether a threshold number of items are present within each row, wherein each of the multiple rows of items comprises one or more of the items arranged extending away from the edge of the product support structure; identify that a threshold number of rows within the select area do not have at least the threshold number of items; and issuing a notification requesting action be taken in response to identifying that the threshold number of rows do not have at least the threshold number of items.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.87059
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15061265', '15061507', '15060953', '15423812', '15061406']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1304892782856895
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5362500264547505
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1710653531025955
- Mean Citation Score: 277.045904
- Max Citation Score: 381.78928
- Similarity Product: 329.99456573067664

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test