PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15916387
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["370", "260000"]

Abstract:
Devices, systems and methods are provided to support a party call with auto joining function in a communication system for a distributed transport system that employs VoIP technology. A VoIP unit or end point acts as a conference bridge between an operator extension and other end points. A first end point makes a SIP call to the operator and multicasts a mix of its send audio and the received operator audio. Other end points first check for multicast traffic being received before making a SIP call to the operator and, if so, play out the received audio over its speaker and multicast its send audio. The end point initiating the call mixes this subsequent stream into a stream to the operator, effectively acting as the conference bridge to the operator. The other end points are responsible for mixing received multicast streams for their local speaker.

Claim (Index 1):
A voice over internet protocol (VoIP) unit comprising:\n a VoIP control module for VoIP operations among VoIP units in an Internet Protocol (IP) network, the VoIP control module configured to selectively establish point-to-point communication between its VoIP unit and another VoIP unit, and multicast communication among a plurality of the VoIP units; an IP network interface module connected to the VoIP control module and to the IP network and configured to exchange hi-directional Ethernet data between the IP network and the VoIP control module; a speaker; a microphone; and a user input device coupled to the VoIP control module for initiating a connection to at least one of an operator and one or more of the other VoIP units via the IP network; wherein the VoIP control module is further configured to initiate a call to an operator and manage a party call with one or more of the other VoIP units, and to join a party call initiated by another one of the VoIP units.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9375
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11645573', '14471642', '11648634', '15160785', '11096081']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5420722373937377
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4720324682328535
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5350682604776493
- Mean Citation Score: 181.935678
- Max Citation Score: 195.8025
- Similarity Product: 153.75467331022026

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