PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15887738
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["052", "849000"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems for assembling a modular ornamental pole. Pole sections can be joined without visible seams by inserting a pole splice fixedly connected to an interior of a first pole section into an interior of a second pole section and then fixedly connecting the second pole section to the pole splice. The pole splice is preferably a length of pole fixedly attached on its exterior to shims with dimensions closely matching the dimensions of pole section hollow interiors (transverse to a long axis of the pole sections), such that the pole splice contacts the interiors of first and second pole sections in multiple substantially separated locations to thereby prevent lateral movement of the pole sections with respect to each other.

Claim (Index 1):
A modular utility support system, comprising:\n a connector pole and a receiver pole, the connector and receiver poles each comprising a pole shaft having a hollow interior and with a long axis in an axial direction, directions perpendicular to the axial direction being transverse directions; the connector pole further comprising a pole splice, the pole splice comprising:\n a pipe section with a long axis parallel to the axial direction, a portion of the pipe section located within and having a same size in the transverse directions as the hollow interior of the pole shaft of the connector pole, and a remainder of the pipe section having a same size in the transverse directions as the hollow interior of the pole shaft of the receiver pole; and \n multiple shims fixedly connected to the pipe section, one or more of the shims located on the portion and having a same size in the transverse directions as the hollow interior of the pole shaft of the connector pole, at least one of the shims on the portion fixedly connected to the hollow interior of the pole shaft of the connector pole, and one or more of the shims being located outside the pole shaft of the connector pole and having a same size, in the transverse directions, as the hollow interior of the pole shaft of the receiver pole; \n wherein the portion and the remainder are sized in the axial direction to prevent the connector pole and the receiver pole from moving with respect to each other in the transverse directions when the pole splice is inserted into the hollow interior of the pole shaft of the receiver pole; and wherein the remainder is configured to be contained within the receiver pole when the pole splice is inserted into the receiver pole.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81429
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14432737', '15656359', '12928049', '12152319', '10766573']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7867565093957917
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4921171133152561
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7572925697877381
- Mean Citation Score: 137.508006
- Max Citation Score: 159.28883000000005
- Similarity Product: 94.05084413576608

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

Dataset: test