PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16022129
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["701", "416000"]

Abstract:
A handheld, portable device is used to facilitate inspection of vehicles, by generating an electronic vehicle inspection record that can be used by fleet operators to provide evidence of complying with required vehicle inspections. When the vehicle inspection record is generated, route identification data is added to the inspection record. The route identification data defines which of a plurality of predefined routes the vehicle has serviced, or will service, during a time period proximate the inspection of the vehicle. Fleet operators can thus use archived inspection records as evidence of compliance with inspection requirements, and to document what route a vehicle serviced at a particular time.

Claim (Index 18):
A method for automatically determining which of a plurality of predefined routes a vehicle has traveled using inspection records, comprising the steps of:\n (a) generating an inspection record in conjunction with an inspection of the vehicle, wherein the inspection record includes:\n (i) a route identifier specifying which one of the plurality of predefined routes the vehicle has traversed or will traverse during a time period proximate the inspection of the vehicle, entered by an operator in response to a prompt from a handheld inspection device; \n (ii) a temporal identifier uniquely identifying the time at which the data is collected; and \n (iii) vehicle inspection data acquired using a portable data collection device, the vehicle inspection data comprising token data collected by the portable data collection device from a plurality of tokens disposed proximate inspection locations associated with the vehicle exterior, wherein the tokens and the inspection locations are disposed on the vehicle, the token data providing evidence that an operator performing the inspection was proximate the token during the vehicle inspection; \n (b) after completing the vehicle inspection, conveying the inspection record to a remote computing device for analysis to determine which one of the plurality of predefined routes the vehicle has traveled; (c) in response to a user request, automatically analyzing the inspection record to determine along which one of the plurality of predefined routes the vehicle has traveled; and (d) presenting the identified route to the user.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.75758
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13159182', '11425222', '10915957', '12475218', '12881559']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4304427082891512
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5664204894320148
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4440404864034376
- Mean Citation Score: 309.681396
- Max Citation Score: 447.89517
- Similarity Product: 407.3600710705233

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