PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16222908
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["340", "907000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods are provided for altering the default operation of traffic signals, e.g., static cycling of lights, based on one or more road conditions and/or operating characteristics of vehicles at or near an intersection at which the traffic signals are located. The timing of light changes in traffic signals can be altered based upon a desire to optimize fuel efficiency, prioritize passage of vehicles through the intersection, and/or exhibit favoritism to vehicles that are driven efficiently and/or by drivers contributing to a pay-to-pass system. Traffic signal controllers controlling traffic signals may, over time, learn traffic patterns based on gathered information regarding the operating characteristics of vehicles and/or road conditions.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of traffic signaling executed by a processor, comprising:\n determining whether one or more vehicles is proximate to one or more intersections having one or more traffic signals; receiving information regarding at least one of road conditions and operating characteristics of at least a first vehicle of the one or more vehicles; determining a feasibility of altering operation of at least one of the one or more traffic signals based upon the received information; determining whether the at least one of the road conditions and the operating characteristics of the at least first vehicle warrants the alteration of the operation of the at least one of the one or more traffic signals; altering the operation of the at least one of the one or more traffic signals upon a determination that the alteration is warranted; learning, over a period of time, traffic priorities near or at the one or more intersections based on the alterations to the operation of the at least one of the one or more traffic signals; and further altering the operation of the at least one of the one or more traffic signals to achieve a desired traffic flow along a section of roadway including the one or more intersections based on the learned traffic priorities.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.57895
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15698602', '15947454', '15805027', '15249556', '16142163']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6670550920862194
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5454262058673519
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6548922034643326
- Mean Citation Score: 224.92097
- Max Citation Score: 381.09805
- Similarity Product: 353.28056747531

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