PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15904704
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["222", "023000"]

Abstract:
Among other things, one or more systems and/or techniques for labeling a refill contain and/or for enabling operation of the refill container by a dispensing system based upon one or more indicia of the label satisfying a dispensing key are provided. In an example, a label may be applied to a refill container. The label may comprise a first region having a first indicia that may correspond to a shape, color, and/or texture (e.g., a yellow star indicia). A dispensing system may enable operation of the refill container (e.g., installation and/or dispensing of material from the refill container) based upon the first indicia satisfying a dispensing key (e.g., a yellow key component and/or a star shape component). Otherwise, the dispensing system does not enable operation of the refill container (e.g., the refill container is not genuine or is not an appropriate refill container type).

Claim (Index 1):
A dispensing system for dispensing a hygiene product, comprising:\n a housing into which a refill container comprising the hygiene product is seated, the refill container comprising a label having a first color code; an illuminator configured to illuminate the label; and a validator configured to:\n validate the refill container based upon a reflection by the label upon the label being illuminated by the illuminator, the validator associated with a dispensing key having a color tolerance range comprising a first analog color tolerance range and a second analog color tolerance range; \n at least one of enable the housing to accept the refill container or enable a dispenser of the dispensing system to dispense the hygiene product from the refill container responsive to the reflection being within the color tolerance range; \n refine the color tolerance range to create a refined dispensing key for subsequent validations responsive to the reflection being within the color tolerance range; and \n confirm the first analog color tolerance range as an acceptable color code for activation of the dispensing system responsive to the first color code corresponding to the first analog color tolerance range and not the second analog color tolerance range.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.47761
- Patent Class: 222.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14588822', '13770504', '12358511', '14983782', '12548681']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7377561208939755
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5747221045815281
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7214527192627307
- Mean Citation Score: 274.231172
- Max Citation Score: 457.90942
- Similarity Product: 449.4760472719527

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