PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16130996
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["222", "230000"]

Abstract:
This disclosure is related to a refrigerator and a method of controlling the same. The refrigerator includes a dispenser passage, a water supplier for supplying sterilizing water or rinsing water to the dispenser passage, a drain for draining the sterilizing water or the rinsing water that is supplied to the dispenser passage, and a controller for performing a sterilization cycle and controlling the water supplier and the drain to perform a rinsing cycle after completing the sterilization cycle, wherein the sterilization cycle is a cycle of keeping the sterilizing water in the dispenser passage and then draining the sterilizing water, and the rinsing cycle is a cycle of supplying the rinsing water to the dispenser passage and draining the rinsing water therefrom.

Claim (Index 20):
The method of  claim 16 , further comprising:\n receiving a draining mode with respect to a draining device from another electronic device; receiving a number of times the sterilizing water and rinsing water are supplied from the other electronic device; receiving the dispenser cleaning signal from the other electronic device; supplying and draining the sterilizing water and the rinsing water according to the received number of times the sterilizing water and the rinsing water are supplied and the draining mode when the dispenser cleaning signal is input; and transmitting data related to an estimated dispenser cleaning time according to the received number of times the sterilizing water and the rinsing water are supplied and the draining mode to display the estimated dispenser cleaning time on the other electronic device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.07143
- Patent Class: 222.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15087731', '14875739', '14875742', '12167334', '15096651']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7285712738125544
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6466783419424504
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.720381980625544
- Mean Citation Score: 323.397534
- Max Citation Score: 652.3509
- Similarity Product: 581.2456840141655

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

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