PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15971334
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["700", "230000"]

Abstract:
Systems, methods and computer-readable media for automating the restocking of shelves process by sending a notification when a product on a shelf has reached, or will reach, an undesired level of emptiness. This is determined using imaging sensors, such as cameras, which can calculate how full or empty a respective shelf is and predict when the shelf will need to be restocked. When the restocking time arrives, the notification can be sent to automated systems, which automatically cause new products to be stocked on the shelf via a conveyor system.

Claim (Index 8):
A restocking system, comprising:\n a plurality of imaging sensors configured to capture imaging data of items on store shelves; a database having item-specific data stored, the item-specific data including dimensions, weight, and orientation information of the items; a processor; and a computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:\n storing the imaging data in the database; \n calculating a current quantity of a product on the store shelves based on the imaging data and the item-specific data; \n calculating a current depletion rate for the product based on the current quantity of the product, a previous quantity of the product, and a historical sales rate of the product; \n forecasting when an emptiness threshold for the product will be reached based on the current depletion rate and the current quantity of the product, to yield a forecasted replenishment time; and \n at the forecasted replenishment time:\n generating an alert for restocking the respective product via a conveyor system; and \n triggering the conveyor system to restock the respective product based on the alert.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.51515
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15971357', '11467195', '15683279', '12623468', '13647147']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3992228325595398
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5877801533444281
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4180785646380286
- Mean Citation Score: 252.71988
- Max Citation Score: 505.2335
- Similarity Product: 481.0810778656602

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