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 14):
A control method of an air conditioner having a plurality of outdoor units and a plurality of indoor units, comprising:\n providing an address setting signal from a first outdoor unit to the plurality of indoor units using a first channel; in response to receiving the address setting signal, providing a response signal from a first indoor unit, from among the plurality of indoor units, to the first outdoor unit; in response to receiving the response signal, determining, by the first outdoor unit, that the first indoor unit is coupled to the first outdoor unit via a refrigerant pipe, and setting a first group associated with the first indoor unit based on the determination; searching for a second channel; and the first outdoor unit communicating, through the second channel, with 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): 0.4274358889503272
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4773351546116763
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4324258155164622
- Mean Citation Score: 227.97891
- Max Citation Score: 229.5552
- Similarity Product: 181.8423479644776

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

Dataset: test