PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15979552
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["700", "275000"]

Abstract:
A bus control system for a home appliance comprises a main controller connected to a bus, a plurality of universal modules each connected to the bus, and a plurality of virtual function modules each communicated with the bus through the main controller to perform a corresponding function. A plurality of loads of the home appliance are each physically connected to a nearest one of the plurality of universal modules. Each of the virtual function modules obtains data of each of loads related to the corresponding function through the bus and generates corresponding control instructions based on the obtained data of each of the loads. The plurality of universal modules receive the control instructions generated by each of the virtual function modules through the bus and directly control respective loads based on the received control instructions.

Claim (Index 11):
The bus control system of  claim 10 , wherein the plurality of universal modules receive the control instructions generated by the drying module through the bus and directly control the drying heater, the drying fan, and the gate lock based on the received control instructions to dry clothes in the washer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 40.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.82
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15113391', '15377130', '11323125', '13321370', '12639837']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4491878125222829
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4936500640100977
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4536340376710644
- Mean Citation Score: 161.57489800000005
- Max Citation Score: 207.2377
- Similarity Product: 136.6886053361416

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

Dataset: test