PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16259436
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["455", "090200"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus to reduce communication device peak current for alert tones are disclosed. A portable device may include a processor coupled to a transceiver and an alert tone controller coupled to the processor. The transceiver may be configured to process an audio signal representing an alert tone. The processor may be configured to determine whether an audio volume level setting exceeds a predetermined threshold. The alert tone controller may be activated based on the determination. The alert tone controller may be configured, based on the activation, to reduce an audio signal by adjustment to a peak-to-peak amplitude of the audio signal and generate an adjusted audio signal by a restriction on the maximum amplitude of the reduced audio signal.

Claim (Index 1):
A portable two-way radio device, comprising:\n a transceiver configured to process an audio signal representing an alert tone; a processor coupled to the transceiver, the processor configured to determine whether an audio volume level setting exceeds a predetermined threshold; and an alert tone controller coupled to the processor, wherein the alert tone controller is activated based on a determination by the processor that the audio volume level setting exceeds the predetermined threshold and the alert tone controller is configured to:\n reduce an audio signal by an adjustment to a peak-to-peak amplitude of the audio signal, the adjustment based on the activation of the alert tone controller; and \n generate an adjusted audio signal by a restriction on the maximum amplitude of the reduced audio signal, the restriction based on the activation of the alert tone controller.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 36.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22414
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16004210', '10195466', '14288566', '14133782', '13901840']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.624871915615929
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5438672783702531
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6167714518913614
- Mean Citation Score: 197.30769400000003
- Max Citation Score: 378.9391
- Similarity Product: 344.36734338271623

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