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 18):
The method of  claim 16 , further comprising at least one of:\n detecting a level of water stored in the water receiver; stopping the draining when the detected level of water is equal to or greater than a predetermined water level; providing a message instructing the user to empty the water receiver when the detected level of water is equal to or greater than the predetermined water level; performing the draining when the detected level of water is less than the predetermined water level; receiving an input regarding a draining mode with respect to a draining device; receiving a number of times the sterilizing water and rinsing water are supplied; receiving the dispenser cleaning signal; 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; receiving at least one of flow rates of the sterilizing water and the rinsing water, a supply time of the sterilizing water, and a supply time of the rinsing water; or receiving a cleaning period.

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): 0.7272282108138818
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6508585512937176
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7195912448618653
- Mean Citation Score: 323.397534
- Max Citation Score: 652.3509
- Similarity Product: 594.9778494460522

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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