PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16173820
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["700", "094000"]

Abstract:
A network device is arranged to identify a group coordinator for a group of networked playback devices. The network device may have a network interface configured to communicate with first playback device and a second playback device over a network. A processor may execute instructions to cause the processor to receive a command to cause a group of one or more playback devices to play audio content, wherein the group of one or more playback devices comprises the first playback device. In response to the command, the processor is to determine that the first playback device is battery-powered. The processor is to identify the second playback device to provide audio content data and audio content playback timing information to the group of the one or more playback devices based on the determination that the first playback device is battery-powered.

Claim (Index 1):
A first playback device forming a synchrony group with at least a second playback device, wherein the first playback device comprises:\n at least one battery; a charging interface; a network interface; one or more processors; tangible, non-transitory computer-readable memory comprising program instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the first playback device to perform a method, comprising:\n determining that (i) the at least one battery is coupled to an external power source via the charging interface and (ii) the at least one battery has a battery level that is above a predetermined threshold; \n after the determining, operating as a group coordinator of the synchrony group so long as the battery level of the at least one battery remains above the predetermined threshold while coupled to the external power source, wherein the group coordinator is configured to (i) receive a command via the network interface and (ii) in response to the command, transmit audio content and audio content playback timing information to each other member of the synchrony group in response to the command; \n deselecting the first playback device as the group coordinator, wherein deselecting comprises detecting that the at least one battery has been decoupled from the external power source; and \n in response to the detecting, (i) determining that the second playback device is coupled to an external power source and (ii) causing the second playback device to become the group coordinator in response to determining that the second playback device is coupled to an external power source.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.65455
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14984974', '14955715', '15259692', '14041989', '14042001']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4422934985850336
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5134005839938778
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.449404207125918
- Mean Citation Score: 200.150622
- Max Citation Score: 229.39621
- Similarity Product: 167.3775410247165

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