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 15):
A voice agent network device comprising:\n a communication interface communicatively coupled to a query response server and to a plurality of voice agents of a voice agent network; a processor; and a memory device storing instructions executable by the processor to:\n receive an respective announce message from each voice agent that joins the voice agent network; \n build and maintain a voice agent map using announce data from the respective announce message received from each voice agent that joins the voice agent network, wherein maintaining the voice agent map further includes removing selected voice agents from the map responsive to an indication that the selected voice agents have left the voice agent network; \n receive an indicator of a start of a voice query from one or more active voice agents of the voice agent network, the one or more active voice agents including voice agents that detect the start of the voice query; \n determine and designate a first voice agent of the one or more active voice agents as a master voice agent based on a comparison of respective signal strengths at which each of the one or more active voice agents are detecting voice data corresponding to the voice query; and \n receive voice data corresponding to the voice query from the designated master voice agent.

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): 0.4818999041956943
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5222305908182616
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.485932972857951
- Mean Citation Score: 200.304846
- Max Citation Score: 358.39606000000015
- Similarity Product: 259.8020328020025

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