PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16113078
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["381", "107000"]

Abstract:
Techniques for optimizing a player based on the addition of a second player are disclosed. In an embodiment, when a first player no longer needs to play certain audio frequencies due to the addition of a second player, the gain of the first player is automatically increased as part of the setup process. In another embodiment, when a first player needs to play certain audio frequencies, for example due to the removal of a second player, the gain of the first player is automatically decreased. Many other embodiments are disclosed.

Claim (Index 10):
A first playback device comprising:\n one or more processors; and tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors of a first playback device, cause the first playback device to perform functions comprising: entering a playback zone with a second playback device, wherein entering the playback zone comprises:\n determining a first maximum sound pressure level (SPL) capability of the first playback device while in the playback zone based on (i) an output frequency characteristic of the first playback device, and (ii) an output frequency range characteristic of the second playback device; and \n determining a first gain parameter for the first playback device while in the playback zone based on the first maximum SPL capability; \n after entering the playback zone, receiving a first audio signal comprising a first audio frequency channel corresponding to the output frequency range of the second playback device and a second audio frequency channel different from the first audio frequency channel; based on receiving the first audio signal (i) applying the first gain parameter to the second audio frequency channel of the first audio signal when playing the first audio frequency channel, and (ii) transmitting the first audio frequency channel of the first audio signal to the second playback device for playback by the second playback device in synchrony with playback of the first audio frequency portion by the first playback device; leaving the playback zone such that the first playback zone is no longer in a playback zone with the second playback device, wherein leaving the playback zone comprises:\n determining a second maximum SPL capability of the first playback device based on the output frequency characteristic of the first playback device, wherein the second maximum SPL capability is lower than the first maximum SPL capability; and \n determining a second gain parameter for the first playback device based on the second maximum SPL capability; \n after leaving the playback zone, receiving a second audio signal; and based on receiving the second audio signal, applying the second gain parameter to the second audio signal when playing the second audio signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15670769', '13458558', '16055582', '16102554', '15620324']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6278421114997481
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4986095714289613
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6149188574926695
- Mean Citation Score: 205.26851
- Max Citation Score: 298.4117
- Similarity Product: 287.28101752585167

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