PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16246746
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["725", "019000"]

Abstract:
A computing system will compare various reference fingerprints each representing a reference media stream broadcast on a different respective known channel, and the computing system will determine that a plurality of the reference fingerprints match each other, thus defining a multi-match group of the matching reference fingerprints. Further, the computing system will determine that a query fingerprint representing a media stream being rendered by a media presentation device matches the multi-match group, thus raising a question of which channel is carrying the media stream that is being rendered by the media presentation device. By considering one or more attributes of the query fingerprint, the server may then disambiguate and thereby determine the channel at issue, and the server may in turn take channel-specific action.

Claim (Index 9):
A computing system comprising:\n a network communication interface; a processing unit; non-transitory data storage; and program instructions stored in the data storage and executable by the processing unit to carry out operations including:\n detecting, based on a comparison of reference fingerprints with each other, that a plurality of the reference fingerprints match each other, the plurality of reference fingerprints defining a multi-match group, wherein each reference fingerprint represents a respective reference media stream carried by a respective known channel of media content, \n after detecting that the plurality of reference fingerprints match each other, detecting that a query fingerprint representing a media stream being rendered by a media presentation device matches a given one of the reference fingerprints of the plurality, \n based having detected that the query fingerprint matches the given reference fingerprint of the plurality, and based on having detected that the plurality of reference fingerprints match each other, determining that the query fingerprint matches each reference fingerprint of the plurality, \n responsive to the determining that the query fingerprint matches each reference fingerprint of the plurality, using one or more attributes of the query fingerprint as a basis to identify a reference fingerprint of the plurality that best matches the query fingerprint, and \n determining, based on the identified reference fingerprint, what channel carries the media stream being rendered by the media presentation device, wherein determining what channel carries the media stream being rendered by the media presentation device comprises determining, as the channel that carries the media stream being rendered by the media presentation device, the channel on which the reference media stream represented by the identified reference fingerprint is carried.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01515
- Patent Class: 725.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16015811', '15443580', '15222405', '15442114', '16015783']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4949417213327047
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5266005033775181
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4981075995371861
- Mean Citation Score: 322.691484
- Max Citation Score: 355.83813
- Similarity Product: 326.2072296554714

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