PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16059431
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["701", "300000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses are provided, some apparatuses comprise: a location controller separate from a motorized transport unit, comprising: a transceiver configured to receive communications from the motorized transport unit; a control circuit; a memory storing computer instructions that when executed by the control circuit cause the control circuit to perform the steps of: obtain, from the communications, a unique light source identifier of a light source detected by the motorized transport unit, and relative distance information determined by the motorized transport unit through an optical measurement; process the at least one unique light source identifier and the relative distance information relative to a mapping of the shopping facility; and determine, in response to the processing, a location of the motorized transport unit within the shopping facility as a function of the at least one unique light source identifier and the relative distance information.

Claim (Index 1):
A system providing control over movement of a motorized transport unit within a shopping facility, comprising:\n a location controller separate and distinct from a self-propelled motorized transport unit, wherein the location controller comprises:\n a transceiver configured to receive communications from the motorized transport unit located within a shopping facility; \n a control circuit coupled with the transceiver; and \n a memory coupled to the control circuit and storing computer instructions that when executed by the control circuit cause the control circuit to perform the steps of: \n obtain, from the communications received from the motorized transport unit, a unique light source identifier of an external light source within the shopping facility and detected by the motorized transport unit from light emitted by the light source, and additional sensor information detected by an on-board sensor system of the motorized transport unit, wherein the light source is one of a plurality of separate light sources external to the motorized transport unit and distributed over one or more portions of the shopping facility, and each of the plurality of light sources is configured to illuminate a corresponding illumination area within the shopping facility; \n process the at least one unique light source identifier relative to a mapping of the shopping facility and the additional sensor information; and \n determine, in response to the processing, a location of the motorized transport unit within the shopping facility as a function of the at least one unique light source identifier and the additional sensor information.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32353
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15061406', '15060953', '15061474', '15892250', '15061325']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4385602444367949
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.525306844562618
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4472349044493772
- Mean Citation Score: 300.50116
- Max Citation Score: 356.67877000000016
- Similarity Product: 353.5253595297195

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