PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16017853
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["381", "309000"]

Abstract:
Appliances, such as earbuds, configured to be used in pairs or otherwise configured to be operated in communication with one another, are arranged for transferring charge from a donor appliance to a recipient appliance. For the earbud system, a first earbud includes an external contact operatively coupled to the first battery, and the second earbud includes a complementary external contact operatively coupled to the second battery. The external contact on the first earbud and the complementary external contact on the second earbud are arranged for electrical connection to provide power from the first battery on the first earbud for charging the second battery on the second earbud, so that the second earbud can act as a recipient of power from the first earbud which acts as a donor of power.

Claim (Index 1):
A shared charging system, comprising:\n a first appliance and a second appliance configured to be operated in communication with one another; the first appliance including communication circuitry for communication with the second appliance, a first battery, and an external contact operatively coupled to the first battery; the second appliance including communication circuitry for communication with the first appliance, a second battery and a complementary external contact operatively coupled to the second battery; and the external contact on the first appliance and complementary external contact on the second appliance are configured to be in direct contact to one another to provide power from the first battery on the first appliance for charging the second battery on the second appliance, wherein the first appliance comprises a plurality of external contacts, including the first mentioned external contact, a power output contact, a ground contact, and a sense contact, and including a circuit connected between the ground contact and the sense contact to provide stimulus and to detect a stimulus response, and in response to detection of the response, to enable supply of power via the power output contact, and wherein the second appliance comprises a plurality of complementary external contacts, including the first mentioned complementary external contact, a ground contact, and a sense contact, and including an electronic component connected between the ground contact and the sense contact which generates the stimulus response in response to stimulus on the sense contact.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.39655
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15273671', '14478698', '15273690', '15275364', '15951502']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7020370743056893
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4968911889876741
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6815224857738877
- Mean Citation Score: 244.64800800000003
- Max Citation Score: 250.73747000000003
- Similarity Product: 184.18130071369887

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

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