PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15990831
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["036", "00300R"]

Abstract:
A ventilation apparatus including a pump, a switching unit, and a fluid diffuser is provided. The pump attached to the footwear pumps fluid into and exhausts fluid from a cavity of the footwear. The switching unit in communication with the pump selectively changes modes of operation of the pump. The fluid diffuser connected to the pump within the cavity of the footwear includes a feed pipe for transferring the fluid pumped from the pump to the cavity of the footwear during a pump mode of operation and to transfer the fluid in the cavity of the footwear to an ambient environment external to the footwear during an exhaust mode of operation, for ventilating the footwear. In one or more embodiments, the fluid diffuser includes a diffusing member with one or more openings and/or a fluid distribution channel member for transferring the fluid to and from the cavity of the footwear.

Claim (Index 4):
The method for ventilating the footwear of  claim 3 , wherein an insole of said footwear comprises through holes, and wherein said through holes of said insole are axially aligned with said channels of said fluid distribution channel member to allow transfer of said fluid received by said channels of said fluid distribution channel member from said feed pipe to said cavity of said footwear during said pump mode and to allow transfer of said exhaust fluid from said cavity of said footwear, through said channels of said distribution channel member, into said feed pipe, and out to said ambient environment external to said footwear during said exhaust mode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.60656
- Patent Class: 36.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14596128', '15700413', '12142881', '11995293', '11265663']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7034018449753973
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6048010859711609
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6935417690749736
- Mean Citation Score: 351.550302
- Max Citation Score: 586.9342
- Similarity Product: 577.2951621928096

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