PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16164997
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["340", "007510"]

Abstract:
A method for a positioning server configured to locate positioning devices and to maintain information on users, who are associated with respective positioning devices. The server receives one or more alert messages from an alerting positioning device. Each alert message conveys identifying information of the alerting positioning device. The server uses the identifying information to retrieve a location estimate of the alerting positioning device. The server forms a first set of other positioning devices in a vicinity of the alerting positioning device and sends an assist request message to the positioning devices in the first set. The assist request message indicates the location estimate of the alerting positioning device and/or said descriptive information.

Claim (Index 9):
The apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein said determination of the first set of positioning devices further comprises determining an assistance-giving ability of the user associated with the respective candidate positioning device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14286
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13865538', '12933544', '13409817', '14526169', '15766871']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6824971487103387
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5366894738197888
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6679163812212838
- Mean Citation Score: 187.952908
- Max Citation Score: 346.17395
- Similarity Product: 274.97982044788

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