PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16156539
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["709", "206000"]

Abstract:
Methods and system for scheduling or launching online and phone sessions between two or more people via email and other electronic communication channels without the requirement for an account with the session service provider when scheduling the session. By including a designated service provider email address in the recipient list of the host's email or meeting invitation, a user account can be, and in some embodiments is automatically created by the service provider system in response to receipt of such an Email and session invitations are automatically sent to the host and invitees designated in the host's email or meeting invitation. In this way the host and invites calendars can be automatically updated and populated with session information and information on how to joint the session, e.g., on-line meeting or conference. The Email from the communications provider system can, and in some embodiments does, take the form of an updated invite Email message with the information in the Email from the service provider system updating or replacing information supplied by the original invite from the host.

Claim (Index 16):
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions which, when implemented by one or more machines, cause the one or more machines to perform operations for operating a communication service provider system, the operations comprising: receiving, at an email server within the communication service provider system, a first email from a first communications device, the first email containing a sender email address, one or more recipient email addresses, and a communication service provider email address, the communication service provider email address not being assigned to an individual user;\n scanning the first email to determine that the first email contains an invitation to participate in an online meeting; determining that the sender email address is not associated with an account registered with the communication service provider; in response to the determination that the sender email address is not associated with a conference host account registered with the communication service provider:\n automatically creating a conference host account, with the communication service provider, associated with the sender email address without further input from the sender email address; \n automatically storing an email reference chain associated with the first email along with the sender email address and the one or more recipient emails addresses in an email thread store, the email reference chain including one or more emails pertaining to the online meeting; \n generating, using information from the first email, a sender email invitation containing conference call launch details specific to a host of an online conference call; generating, using information from the first email, one or more invitee email invitations containing conference call join details for participants of the online conference call; sending the sender email invitation to the sender email address; and sending the one or more invitee email invitations to the one or more recipient email addresses.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11236
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14883357', '12570925', '10903590', '13348402', '13585482']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.289848783171631
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6030872641466415
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3211726312691321
- Mean Citation Score: 304.23975600000006
- Max Citation Score: 540.7437
- Similarity Product: 504.7308653019369

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