PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15966705
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["705", "013000"]

Abstract:
An electric vehicle charging station such as a smart Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) with an integrated camera is provided. A networked on-charging station camera unit disposed either internally to the smart EVSE or connected externally on the smart EVSE. The camera unit includes at least one of a video camera and a still image camera. A communication module is coupled to the camera unit to communicate acquired camera data over a camera connection to a server or to a mobile device of a user over one or more public networks, one or more private networks, or a combination of one or more public networks and one or more private networks.

Claim (Index 1):
A smart Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE), the smart EVSE comprising:\n a body having an exterior surface; and a camera unit integrated with the body, the camera unit having a camera disposed on the exterior surface, the camera is communicatively coupled to a server via a communications network, wherein the camera unit including:\n a processor configured to receive authentication information of a user of the smart EVSE over the communications network, and \n a storage device configured to store the authentication information locally at the smart EVSE and store EVSE usage information, \n wherein the processor is configured to compare the stored authentication information with information acquired from the camera to ascertain an identity of the user of the smart EVSE, and \n wherein the camera is configured to read a graphic image from a mobile device of a user of the smart EVSE or a graphic image affixed on a vehicle of the user to make a payment authentication.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.85938
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15045994', '13070389', '14956330', '14867309', '15882799']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1145994018069732
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5395665560383232
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1570961172301082
- Mean Citation Score: 225.607726
- Max Citation Score: 388.57007
- Similarity Product: 365.013906283946

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test