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 3):
A method for dispensing a beverage from a beverage dispenser, the method comprising the steps of:\n providing a beverage dispenser configured to dispense a beverage using a single-use beverage container configured to be inserted into the beverage dispenser prior to dispensing; by a requesting entity: sending a request for issuing first information enabling dispensing beverage from the beverage dispenser for a pre-determined validity period being a period starting from requesting or issuing the first information, wherein the request for issuing the first information includes an ID of the single-use beverage container; by an issuing entity: receiving the request for issuing and issuing the first information, wherein the issuing of the first information includes generating the first information and storing the first information only for the pre-determined validity period, and wherein the ID of the single-use beverage container is stored only for the pre-determined validity period; by the beverage dispenser: receiving a request for dispensing a beverage and receiving second information regarding the dispensing request, wherein receiving the second information includes acquiring an ID of a single-use beverage container; 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, wherein the checking includes matching the ID that is acquired by the beverage dispenser with the ID stored in the issuing entity.

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): 0.4133183936655656
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4656086056960252
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4185474148686116
- Mean Citation Score: 187.036086
- Max Citation Score: 198.77162
- Similarity Product: 159.8213551786649

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