PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15862428
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["345", "174000"]

Abstract:
Implementations include methods of controlling a haptic response comprising receiving a force signal from a force sensor; determining a force magnitude associated with the force signal; comparing the force magnitude with an initial threshold force amount to determine whether the force magnitude exceeds the initial threshold force amount; measuring an elapsed time that the force magnitude exceeds the initial threshold force amount; comparing the elapsed time to a minimum elapsed time; if the elapsed time being greater than the minimum elapsed time, generating a haptic feedback control signal, the haptic feedback control signal causing a haptic actuator to propagate a plurality of pressure waves at a propagation frequency, the propagation frequency being proportional to the force magnitude; and generating a scroll control signal that causes a menu system to scroll through a plurality of menu options provided by the menu system at a scroll frequency associated with the propagation frequency.

Claim (Index 1):
An electronic device comprising:\n a touch sensitive interface comprising one or more force sensors and a touch surface, the touch surface transferring force received by the touch surface to the one or more force sensors; a haptic actuator; a memory; and a processor, the processor in electrical communication with the one or more force sensors, the haptic actuator, and the memory, wherein the processor executes instructions stored on the memory, the instructions causing the processor to:\n receive a force signal from the one or more force sensors; \n determine a force magnitude associated with the force signal; \n compare the force magnitude to an initial threshold force amount o determine if the force magnitude exceeds the initial threshold force amount; \n measure an elapsed time that the force magnitude exceeds the initial threshold force amount; \n compare the elapsed time to a minimum elapsed time; and \n in response to the elapsed time being greater than the minimum elapsed time, generate a haptic feedback control signal for communicating to the haptic actuator, the haptic feedback control signal causing the haptic actuator to propagate a plurality of pressure waves at a propagation frequency, the propagation frequency being proportional to the force magnitude.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 48.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.58065
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14509560', '15368101', '14509493', '14509332', '11249021']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6457672209167035
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4682488257136301
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6280153813963961
- Mean Citation Score: 135.47434200000004
- Max Citation Score: 145.14905
- Similarity Product: 103.91804526389836

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