PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15982384
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["700", "237000"]

Abstract:
A method for operating a beverage dispenser includes: receiving a request to dispense a beverage; receiving information enabling dispensing the beverage from the beverage dispenser for a pre-determined validity period; and checking whether the current time is within the pre-determined validity period, and if so, dispensing the beverage. A method for dispensing a beverage from a beverage dispenser, the method includes the steps of: by a requesting entity: sending a request for issuing first information enabling dispensing beverage from the beverage dispenser for a pre-determined validity period; by an issuing entity: receiving the request for issuing and issuing the first information; by the beverage dispenser: receiving a request for dispensing a beverage and receiving second information regarding the dispensing request; and checking whether the second information matches the first information and whether the current time is within pre-determined validity period, and if so, enabling dispensing the beverage.

Claim (Index 17):
The beverage dispenser according to  claim 15 , further comprising a communication module for communication via a data network, wherein the beverage dispenser is further adapted to check whether the current time is within the pre-determined validity period by comparing the information acquired via the least one information receiving unit with information stored by an issuing entity, the issuing entity being connected to the beverage dispenser via the data network.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.64444
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14585087', '12793949', '14335855', '15609245', '15167870']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4109625943706908
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.475239741634349
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4173903090970566
- Mean Citation Score: 187.036086
- Max Citation Score: 198.77162
- Similarity Product: 145.53884382022738

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test