PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16048923
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["379", "265020"]

Abstract:
Examples include controlling voice input detection in a voice agent network including a plurality of voice agents. An example voice agent includes an audio sensor, a communication interface, a processor, and a memory device storing instructions executable by the processor to detect, via the audio sensor, audio data corresponding to a voice input, and responsive to determining that at least one other voice agent of a voice agent network is detecting audio data corresponding to the voice input determine a signal strength at which the audio data is detected, compare the signal strength to a reported signal strength from the at least one other voice agent, and selectively transmit one or more of an indication of the signal strength and the detected audio data based on comparing the signal strength to the reported signal strength from the at least one other voice agent.

Claim (Index 11):
A method of controlling voice input detection in a voice agent network including a plurality of voice agents, the method comprising:\n detecting, at a first voice agent of the plurality of voice agents, first audio data corresponding to a voice input at a first signal strength and/or a first signal quality; responsive to determining that the first signal strength and/or first signal quality is higher than respective received signal strengths and/or signal qualities reported from each other voice agent in the voice agent network, assigning the first voice agent as a master voice agent; aggregating, at the first voice agent, collected voice data including the first audio data while the first voice agent is assigned as the master voice agent; responsive to receiving an indication that a second voice agent of the plurality of voice agents detects second audio data corresponding to the voice input at a second signal strength and/or a second signal quality that is higher than a currently-determined signal strength and/or a currently-determined signal quality from the first voice agent, assigning the second voice agent as the master voice agent and stopping the aggregation of the collected voice data at the first voice agent; and responsive to receiving, at the first voice agent, an indication of an end of the voice input, transmitting the collected voice data to a network device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.42857
- Patent Class: 379.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15621678', '15815375', '15585288', '15395729', '12999899']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4807837981442207
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5204053042159619
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4847459487513948
- Mean Citation Score: 200.304846
- Max Citation Score: 358.39606000000015
- Similarity Product: 322.2161476825381

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