PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16025919
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["340", "539140"]

Abstract:
An RF signal is provided by a base such as a smart phone. A remote is engaged with a medication container. The remote includes an RFPM, RF signal receiver, LO signal generator, and IF signal emitter. An energizer on the remote provides power only as medication is dispensed. While energized, the RFPM modulates the RF signal with an LO signal to produce an IF signal. The existence of the IF signal (characteristic of the RFPM, RF signal, and LO signal) thus indicates medication has been dispensed. The IF signal is detected in the base, and registered (recorded, displayed, communicated, etc.) as an indication that medication has been dispensed. The remote may be configured as a label applied to or a sleeve engaged with an otherwise “non-smart” container. This provides authenticated data regarding medication adherence, transparent to the user and requiring no additional user actions to register the data.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus comprising:\n a remote adapted to be engaged with a container, said remote comprising:\n a radio frequency passive modulator adapted to apply a frequency modification to an RF signal by frequency mixing an LO signal therewith so as to produce an IF signal characteristic of radio frequency passive modulator, said RF signal, and said LO signal; \n a first RF receiver adapted to wirelessly receive said RF signal and provide said RF signal to an RF port of said radio frequency passive modulator; \n an LO generator adapted to generate an LO signal and provide said LO signal to an LO port of said radio frequency passive modulator; \n an IF emitter adapted to receive said IF signal from an IF port of said radio frequency passive modulator and wirelessly emit said IF signal; \n an initiator adapted to be initiated by an action associated with dispensing a contents from said container; \n an energizer engaged with said initiator and in communication with said radio frequency passive modulator, said first RF receiver, said LO generator, and said IF emitter such that when said initiator is initiated said energizer energizes said radio frequency passive modulator, said first RF receiver, said LO generator, and said IF emitter; \n a base distal from said container, comprising:\n a processor adapted to execute executable instructions; \n an RF assembly, comprising at least one of:\n an RF generator adapted to generate said RF signal therein and an RF emitter adapted to receive said RF signal from said RF generator and wirelessly emit said RF signal; and \n a second RF receiver adapted to wirelessly receive said RF signal; \n \n an IF receiver adapted to wirelessly receive said IF signal and provide said IF signal to said processor;\n a registerer comprising at least one of:\n a data store in communication with said processor; \n a communicator in communication with said processor; and \n an outputter in communication with said processor; \n \n a clock in communication with said processor; and \n a base electrical supply adapted to energize said processor, said RF assembly, said IF receiver, said registerer, and said clock; \n wherein: said processor is adapted to compare said IF signal to an IF signal standard; said processor is adapted to register via said registerer a contextual event associated with dispensing said contents if said IF signal satisfies said IF standard; said registering comprising at least one of:\n storing a presence of said contextual event and a time of said contextual event in said data store; \n communicating said presence of said contextual event and said time of said contextual event to an external entity via said communicator; and \n outputting said presence of said contextual event and said time of said contextual event via said outputter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 74.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10843
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15885681', '10596691', '11431771', '14729773', '15238635']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6142284006193888
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4864158400904639
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6014471445664963
- Mean Citation Score: 155.99572199999997
- Max Citation Score: 182.91112
- Similarity Product: 142.10525057017327

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

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