PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15905851
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["700", "232000"]

Abstract:
A vending machine to dispense ice into a container, the vending machine including a body, a container receiving compartment disposed at a front portion of the body to house the container therein, an ice dispensing spout disposed at a top portion of the container receiving compartment to dispense the ice into the container, a start button to cause the ice to be dispensed from the ice dispensing spout, and at least one of a credit card slot, a dollar bill slot, and a coin slot to activate the start button when the vending machine senses that money has been received within the vending machine via the at least one of the credit card slot, the dollar bill slot, and the coin slot, such that the ice is dispensable from the ice dispensing spout when the start button is activated.

Claim (Index 1):
A vending machine to dispense ice into a container having a predetermined size, the vending machine comprising:\n a body; a container receiving compartment disposed at a front portion of the body to house the container having the predetermined container size therein; an ice dispensing spout disposed at a top portion of the container receiving compartment to dispense the ice into the container; a start button to cause the ice to be dispensed from the ice dispensing spout; at least one of a credit card slot, a dollar bill slot, and a coin slot to activate the start button when the vending machine senses that money has been received within the vending machine via the at least one of the credit card slot, the dollar bill slot, and the coin slot, such that the ice is dispensable from the ice dispensing spout when the start button is activated; and an input unit to allow a user to enter at least one of an amount of ice to be dispensed from the ice dispensing spout and an amount of money desired to be extracted from a credit card, such that the input unit displays selectable container sizes, such that selection of the container size corresponding to the container having the predetermined size causes the input unit to display a monetary amount required to fill the container having the predetermined container size with the ice, and selection of the container size causes the container having the predetermined container size to be filled with the ice via the ice dispensing spout.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.67857
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10869747', '11114348', '11800898', '11669768', '12388564']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3972246229531267
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4754132164229426
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4050434823001083
- Mean Citation Score: 169.22275600000003
- Max Citation Score: 207.87543
- Similarity Product: 157.19553969115375

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