PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16445810
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["381", "080000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure is directed to systems, apparatuses, and methods for wirelessly delivering multi-channel audio over a packet based network with tight synchronization, high fidelity, and/or low delay as described above. The systems can include a source device that provides multi-channel audio to a distributor device, which wirelessly distributes the multi-channel audio over the packet based network to audio rendering devices, referred to as “sink” devices. The distributor device and the sink devices each include a playback clock that is used to read audio samples of the multi-channel audio from a local memory and drive a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) coupled to a speaker to render the audio samples.

Claim (Index 16):
An audio system, comprising:\n a distributor device, including:\n a first playback clock generator configured to provide a first playback timer based on a first playback clock used to playback a first portion of audio samples at the distributor device; \n a first application level processor configured to place a sample of the first playback timer and a second portion of the audio samples into a packet for transmission to a plurality of sink devices, wherein the second portion of the audio samples placed into the packet for transmission to the plurality of sink devices does not include temporally contiguous audio samples that belong to a same audio channel; and \n a distribution transceiver configured to transmit the packet to the plurality of sink devices; and \n an audio sink device from among the plurality of audio sink devices, including: \n a second playback clock generator configured to provide a second playback timer based on a second playback clock; \n a second application level processor configured to:\n receive the packet including the second portion of audio samples; \n de-shuffle the second portion of audio samples to generate audio samples that are temporally contiguous; and \n store the temporally contiguous audio samples in a buffer for rendering using the second playback timer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 40.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.77941
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15007821', '16036262', '13955965', '14484082', '15354449']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6909505911484898
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5177159876026806
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6736271307939089
- Mean Citation Score: 222.560116
- Max Citation Score: 327.69318
- Similarity Product: 316.3957334229827

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