PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16102695
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["381", "080000"]

Abstract:
A multi-channel and multi-zone audio environment is provided. Various inventions are disclosed that allow playback devices on one or more networks to provide an effective multi-channel and a multi-zone audio environment using timing information. According to one example, timing information is used to coordinate playback devices connected over a low-latency network to provide audio along with a video display. In another example, timing information is used to coordinate playback devices connected over a mesh network to provide audio in one or more zones or zone groups.

Claim (Index 7):
The first networked device of  claim 6 , wherein determining whether the first networked device is coupled to the plurality of playback devices further comprises determining whether the plurality of playback devices comprises at least the first type of playback device and the second type of playback device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15296304', '13632731', '15087404', '15876970', '13937890']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7112480926929023
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5081539129191004
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6909386747155222
- Mean Citation Score: 205.497906
- Max Citation Score: 249.16112
- Similarity Product: 160.85633026227953

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