PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16275458
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["340", "436000"]

Abstract:
In embodiments of the present invention, an Alert Controller coupled to an Internal Digital Communication System (“IDCS”) of a vehicle monitors vehicle states based on messages received over the IDCS and generates audio alerts projected external to the vehicle based on the vehicle states. Multiple vehicle states may be defined, with each vehicle state associated with receipt of one or more types of messages in a particular sequence and/or within a particular timeframe. Different audio alerts may be assigned to different vehicle states. The audio alerts may be customizable such as by the vehicle manufacturer and/or vehicle owner/operator. An alert selection interface may be provided in the vehicle for user-selection of audio alerts.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of producing an external audio alert for use in the course of operation of a motor vehicle having an internal digital communication system used to control or monitor at least a motor of the vehicle via a stream of messages, the method implemented by computer processes comprising:\n processing of the stream of messages, by an alert processor coupled to the internal digital communication system and configured to snoop on the stream of messages on the internal digital communication system, to characterize a current state of the vehicle based on the stream of messages; processing by the alert processor of the current vehicle state to determine whether the current vehicle state corresponds to an alert condition; and in the event that the current vehicle state does correspond to the alert condition, executing by the alert processor a macro corresponding to the alert condition, the macro specifying a plurality of behaviors to be performed in a specific order, wherein at least one of the plurality of behaviors includes causing generation of an external audio alert corresponding to the behavior.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.69863
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16011087', '15789221', '15303876', '10073236', '13149678']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6287028152088332
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5343947231881341
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6192720060067634
- Mean Citation Score: 222.396216
- Max Citation Score: 343.92233
- Similarity Product: 341.4224935327035

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

Dataset: test