PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16126175
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["345", "173000"]

Abstract:
An electronic device includes a touch-sensitive surface, for example a touch pad or touch screen. The user interacts with the touch-sensitive surface, producing touch interactions. Some of these touch interactions may be detected as indicative of a grasp for manipulating a physical tool (e.g., the grasp for holding a pen). When these touch interactions are encountered, a corresponding virtual tool is instantiated. The virtual tool controls an action on the electronic device that is similar to an action that can be performed by the physical tool. For example, the virtual pen can be used to draw on the display, whereas the physical pen draws on paper. A representation of the virtual tool is also displayed on a display for the electronic device, possibly providing additional affordances, at a location that corresponds to a location of the detected touch interaction.

Claim (Index 24):
A device comprising:\n a touch screen; means for distinguishing between a first touch interaction, which has a first touch contact pattern associated with a first set of at least three simultaneous touch contacts, and a second touch interaction, which has a second touch contact pattern associated with a second set of the at least three simultaneous touch contacts, based at least in part on at least one difference between at least one of position, shape, size, orientation, pressure, or contacting part(s) of a user's hand(s) of the first set of the at least three simultaneous touch contacts and the second set of the at least three simultaneous touch contacts, wherein the first touch interaction and the second touch interaction are characterized by contact between the user's hand(s) and a touch screen of the device while the user's hand(s) are empty but formed into a shape defined by a grasp that is suitable for manipulating a particular physical tool; and means for classifying a touch interaction as indicative of the particular physical tool based at least in part on the touch interaction being classified as any of a plurality of different touch interactions for the user's hand(s) formed into shapes defined by grasps that are suitable for manipulating the particular physical tool, wherein the plurality of different touch interactions associated with different ways for manipulating the particular physical tool are all classified as indicative of the particular physical tool, wherein the classifying the touch interaction includes classifying the touch interaction based on the distinguishing between the first touch interaction and the second touch interaction, and wherein the first touch interaction and second touch interaction correspond to different virtual tools.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13863193', '14303203', '15640507', '13160342', '14303234']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6134563237849777
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5351658205689888
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6056272734633789
- Mean Citation Score: 205.374836
- Max Citation Score: 352.27078
- Similarity Product: 235.6819703890705

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