PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16022292
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["725", "025000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for controlling permissions to change parental control settings based on vocal characteristics of a user. In some aspects, the media guidance application may receive a voice command from a user to update a parental control setting. The media guidance application may determine both what the requested change is and an age (or age range) of the user is who is attempting to change the parental control setting based on vocal characteristics of the voice command. If the media guidance application determines that an age range associated with the user exceeds an age associated with the requested change to the parental control setting, the media guidance application may update the parental control setting at a media device based on the requested change. Accordingly, the media guidance application may allow only users of appropriate ages to change parental control settings at the media device.

Claim (Index 62):
A system for determining whether to update parental control restrictions based on a voice of a user, the system comprising:\n control circuitry configured to:\n receive, from an input device, an audio input of an utterance of a user; \n process the audio input to determine a plurality of words and a plurality of vocal characteristics of the user; \n compare the plurality of words to parental control instructions stored in a database; \n determine that the plurality of words corresponds to a first parental control instruction in the database, wherein the first parental control instruction comprises a first parental control level, wherein the first parental control level represents a content restriction; \n determine an age range of the user based on the plurality of vocal characteristics of the user and a voice database that associates each of the vocal characteristics with a plurality of age ranges; \n retrieve, from memory, an age required to update a parental control setting at a media device; \n determine whether the age range of the user exceeds the age required to update the parental control setting at the media device; and \n in response to determining that the age range of the user exceeds the age, update the parental control setting at the media device to the first parental control level of the first parental control instruction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5
- Patent Class: 725.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15612465', '16066243', '14870212', '14194259', '15992967']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4478023006589597
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5992817351568758
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4629502441087513
- Mean Citation Score: 285.61943
- Max Citation Score: 486.14923
- Similarity Product: 433.64396359428815

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

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