PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16256376
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["704", "254000"]

Abstract:
A system for capturing and processing portions of a spoken utterance command that may occur before a wakeword. The system buffers incoming audio and indicates locations in the audio where the utterance changes, for example when a long pause is detected. When the system detects a wakeword within a particular utterance, the system determines the most recent utterance change location prior to the wakeword and sends the audio from that location to the end of the command utterance to a server for further speech processing.

Claim (Index 1):
A computer-implemented method for processing a spoken command when the wakeword does not begin the command, the method comprising:\n receiving audio comprising speech; buffering audio data representing the speech; determining that the audio data includes a number of consecutive audio frames with an energy level below a threshold; determining that a new utterance has occurred in the speech using a tone quality of the speech and the number of consecutive audio frames; determining a first location in the speech corresponding to the new utterance; storing the first location; detecting a wakeword in the speech, wherein the wakeword corresponds to a second location in the speech, the second location being after the first location; sending a portion of audio data to a remote server for speech processing, where a beginning of the portion of audio data corresponds to speech at the first location; determining an end of the new utterance at a third location in the speech, the third location being after the second location; concluding the sending of the portion of audio data to the remote server so that an end of the portion of audio data corresponds to speech at the third location; receiving command data from the remote server; and executing the command data.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.73077
- Patent Class: 704.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14672277', '14753828', '15228617', '15967185', '15196228']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2965797631048021
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5096070401425686
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3178824908085788
- Mean Citation Score: 272.196682
- Max Citation Score: 316.4663700000001
- Similarity Product: 265.4074034765393

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