PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15964337
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["726", "004000"]

Abstract:
Network traffic is received from a guest device on a computer network of a hospitality establishment, and a guest area of the hospitality establishment is accordingly identified. A login database is queried to find an unexpired login for the guest area, the unexpired login specifying a stored guest identifier corresponding to information retrieved from a property management system of the hospitality establishment regarding a guest of the guest area at a time when the unexpired login was created. The stored guest identifier of the unexpired login is compared with a current guest identifier of the guest area retrieved from the property management system regarding a current guest of the guest area. When the stored guest identifier matches the current guest identifier, the guest device is automatically allowed to access the network service for a remaining portion of the allowed access duration of the unexpired login.

Claim (Index 21):
An apparatus for controlling access to a network service provided over a computer network of a hospitality establishment, the apparatus comprising:\n a network interface coupled to the computer network; a storage device; and one or more processors coupled to the network interface and the storage device; wherein, by the one or more processors executing software instructions loaded from the storage device, the one or more processors are configured to:\n receive first network traffic from a first guest device on the computer network; \n determine a guest area of the hospitality establishment that is associated with the first guest device, wherein the guest area is one of a plurality of physically separate areas provided by the hospitality establishment, and assignment of the guest area for guest usage is managed by a property management system (PMS) of the hospitality establishment; \n query a login database to determine that there is no unexpired login record for the guest area at a time the first network traffic is received; \n require the first guest device to successfully complete a login process at a login portal before granting the first guest device access to the network service; \n query the property management system (PMS) of the hospitality establishment to retrieve a first guest identifier representing a guest registered for the guest area at a time the login process is successfully completed by the first guest device; \n store a login record for the guest area in the login database and including the first guest identifier in the login record in response to the first guest device successfully completing the login process; \n receive second network traffic from a second guest device on the computer network; \n determine that the second guest device is associated with the guest area; \n query the login database to determine that an allowed access time of the login record for the guest area has not yet expired at a time the second network traffic is received; \n query the property management system (PMS) to retrieve a second guest identifier representing a guest registered for the guest area at the time the second network traffic is received; \n compare the second guest identifier with the first guest identifier; \n in response to the second guest identifier not matching the first guest identifier, require the second guest device to successfully complete the login process at the login portal before granting the second guest device access to the network service; and \n in response to the second guest identifier matching the first guest identifier, automatically grant the second guest device access to the network service for a remaining portion of the allowed access duration of the login record without requiring the second guest device to successfully complete the login process at the login portal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.62069
- Patent Class: 726.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13611069', '15431885', '13874515', '14833112', '15706437']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4002879112086266
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6122073351868469
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4214798536064487
- Mean Citation Score: 517.7518480000001
- Max Citation Score: 593.39685
- Similarity Product: 483.10250069149737

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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