PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15948458
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["112", "078000"]

Abstract:
Presented are a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for stitching. The method includes examining, by an examiner, an embroidery design, wherein the examiner is operably coupled to a controller and a sewing head, and wherein the controller comprises a memory having a capacity, and wherein the controller is operable to cause the sewing head to stitch a work piece. The method further includes determining, by the examiner, a needle drop location of each stitch of the embroidery design, and dividing, by the examiner, the examined embroidery design into a plurality of separate sections. The method still further includes transmitting the plurality of separate sections at a plurality of different times to the controller such that the controller the plurality of separate sections do not exceed the capacity of the memory at any one of the plurality of different times.

Claim (Index 6):
An apparatus for stitching, the apparatus comprising:\n an examiner operable to examiner an embroidery design to determine a needle drop location of each stitch of the embroidery design, the examiner is further operable to divide the examined embroidery design into a plurality of separate sections, the examiner operable to maintain the embroidery design and the plurality of separate sections in an examiner memory; a sewing head including a reciprocating needle, the sewing head operable to stitch a work piece; and a controller having a memory capacity and operably coupled to the examiner and the sewing head, the controller operable to cause the sewing head to stitch the work piece, the controller operable to receive the plurality of separate sections from the examiner at a plurality of different times such that the plurality of separate sections do not exceed the memory capacity at any one of the plurality of different times, wherein the sewing head is operable to stitch, in response to the controller, the plurality of separate sections into the work piece based on the determined needle drop location.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46032
- Patent Class: 112.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15790746', '14182399', '14702274', '14205641', '15069695']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6713116786217868
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5511263307695572
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6592931438365638
- Mean Citation Score: 326.760554
- Max Citation Score: 442.93295
- Similarity Product: 366.0529823269516

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