PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15862825
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["700", "276000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed is an air conditioner and a control method thereof, the air conditioner where a plurality of units is connected wirelessly to receive and transmit data with each other, and the control method in which an address is set in a wireless communication method using an initially set basic channel, a group is set in response to a response signal, and communication is performed with an indoor unit belonging into the same group through a new channel. Accordingly, the plurality of units in the air conditioner is able to receive and transmit data with each other wirelessly, and a group is set with respect to multiple units so that the multiple units are able to communicate with each other directly. Additionally, because a group is able to be easily set with respected to units connected via a pipe by setting a channel, it is possible to reduce a time for setting wireless communication and make the communication setting accurate. The present disclosure allows units to communicate using a different channel according to which group each unit belongs to, thereby preventing intervention between groups and malfunction of units.

Claim (Index 1):
An air conditioner comprising:\n a plurality of outdoor units that includes a first outdoor unit; and a plurality of indoor units connected to one of the plurality of outdoor units via a refrigerant pipe, wherein the first outdoor unit of the plurality of outdoor units is configured to:\n wirelessly transmit an address setting signal to the plurality of indoor units using an initially set channel, \n receive a response signal from at least one of the plurality of indoor units, \n determine that a first indoor unit, from which the response signal is received from among the plurality of indoor units, is an indoor unit coupled to the first outdoor unit via the refrigerant pipe, \n set a first group associated with the first indoor unit, \n search for a new channel for the set first group, and \n the first output unit to communicate, through the new channel, with at least the first indoor unit associated with the first group.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35294
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14858780', '14649098', '14649417', '13733738', '15637340']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4282657203609201
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4737484302894405
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4328139913537722
- Mean Citation Score: 227.97891
- Max Citation Score: 229.5552
- Similarity Product: 189.304827772522

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

Dataset: test