PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15905117
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["705", "007120"]

Abstract:
Method and apparatus for statistically determining buffers for time variances for scheduled operations. Buffers for a particular operation can be based on a statistical analysis of past instances of the specific operation, and a buffer can be applied based on a selected statistical confidence interval. The statistical analysis can include determining a Gumbel distribution for time variances for a particular operation. Once buffers have been determined for the various operations, itineraries of operations can be prepared such that the scheduled times plus the buffer times for the operations in an itinerary do not exceed personnel limits of the personnel who may be assigned to the itineraries.

Claim (Index 1):
A computer-implemented method, the method comprising:\n determining statistical distributions for time variances of various operations based on time variances during past instances of the various operations, wherein the time variances are variances from scheduled times for the various operations; determining a plurality of time variance buffers associated with the various operations based on statistical distributions associated with the various operations, each of the plurality of time variance buffers associated with at least one confidence interval of a plurality of confidence intervals; determining a priority for an operation of the various operations; selecting one or more time variance buffers, of the plurality of time variance buffers, for the various operations, based on the determined priority and the plurality of confidence interval s; identifying, by operation of one or more computer processors, a combination of operations from among the various operations wherein a sum of scheduled times for the combination of operations and the selected time variance buffers for the combination of operations do not exceed a personal time limit of personnel; and. assigning the identified combination of operations to an itinerary.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86667
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14630865', '14500447', '15464071', '14793517', '13044135']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1210017635046658
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6258973361516779
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.171491320769367
- Mean Citation Score: 345.571474
- Max Citation Score: 606.2747
- Similarity Product: 539.9317488610983

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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