PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15867971
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["715", "849000"]

Abstract:
A mixed-reality technique is described herein that associates an instance of program functionality with an anchoring human body part, such as a user's palm, fingertip, forearm, etc. The technique then presents a virtual object in physical relation to the anchoring body part. The virtual object provides an interface that allows the user to conveniently interact with the program functionality. In some implementations, the technique identifies the body parts of the user by generating a skeleton of the user's body. The technique generates the skeleton, in turn, based on image information captured by one or more cameras. In some implementations, the virtual object that is presented is also associated with a particular person with whom the user has a predefined relationship. The user may interact with the particular person via the virtual object, e.g., by receiving and sending messages from/to the person.

Claim (Index 16):
A method for or providing a mixed-reality experience to a user, comprising:\n receiving body part information from a skeleton generator component, the skeleton generator component generating the body part information based on image information received from a camera system, the image information representing a human body of the user within a physical environment, and the body part information identifying at least one part of the body of the user; receiving context information from one or more sources of context information; determining, based on the context information, and based on at least one rule specified in a data store, whether a triggering condition has been met; providing a virtual object when it is determined that the triggering condition has been met, the virtual object being associated, per said at least one rule, with a particular instance of program functionality and an anchoring body part; locating the anchoring body part based on the body part information; and presenting the virtual object to the user in physical relation to the anchoring body part, the virtual object serving as an interface through which the user interacts with the particular instance of program functionality, the method being implemented by one or more computing devices.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 715.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15481705', '14724503', '14020723', '14885313', '15489682']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2695971314579692
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4740721438113042
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2900446326933027
- Mean Citation Score: 139.246794
- Max Citation Score: 152.63365
- Similarity Product: 102.83292526105043

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

Dataset: test