PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16078921
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["235", "462030"]

Abstract:
A container for a beverage or foodstuff preparation machine, the container for containing beverage or foodstuff material and comprising a code encoding preparation information, the code comprising a reference portion and a data portion: the reference portion comprising reference units defining a reference line r; the data portion comprising a data unit, wherein said data unit is arranged on an encoding line D that intersects the reference line r, the data unit is arranged a distance d from said intersection as a variable to at least partially encode a parameter of the preparation information, whereby said encoding line D is circular and is arranged with a tangent thereto orthogonal the reference line r at said intersection point, wherein the reference units are arranged with a configuration defining a reference point from which the reference line r extends.

Claim (Index 29):
Method of encoding preparation information, the method comprising forming a code on:\n a container for a beverage preparation machine or foodstuff preparation machine, the container for containing beverage or foodstuff material; or an attachment for attachment to the container or to a beverage preparation machine or foodstuff preparation machine, the method further comprising: arranging at least two reference units to define a virtual reference line of a reference portion; encoding a value of a parameter of the preparation information with a data portion of the code by arranging a pair of data units on a virtual encoding line that intersects the virtual reference line at a virtual intersection point, the pair of data units being arranged a distance extending along the encoding line from the virtual intersection point, the distance encoding the value of a parameter of the preparation information, whereby the virtual encoding line is circular or comprises a segment of a circle and is arranged with a tangent thereto orthogonal the virtual reference line at the virtual intersection point; and at least partially encoding a parameter of the preparation information with one or more further data units occupying one or more discrete positions which are arranged on the virtual encoding line at locations determined relative to said distance encoding the value of a parameter of the preparation information, wherein the discrete positions either comprise or do not comprise a further data unit of said one or more further data units as a variable to at least partially encode a parameter of the preparation information, and wherein the centers of the two data units of the pair of data units are separated from each other by a distance and wherein the discrete positions are spaced apart from the closest data unit of said pair of data units by distances different from the distance between the two data units of the pair of data units.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35484
- Patent Class: 235.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15569119', '15564828', '15124521', '15128645', '15122576']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5281307450639168
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4914465025024785
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.524462320807773
- Mean Citation Score: 207.536358
- Max Citation Score: 282.71677
- Similarity Product: 248.9664472034884

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