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 12):
A tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media comprising instructions encoded therein, wherein the instructions, when executed by one or more processors, cause a first networked device to perform a method comprising:\n receiving a first audio signal at the first networked device from an audio source, wherein the first audio signal comprises home theater audio information for playback by a plurality of playback devices; assigning a first plurality of home theater timestamps to portions of the home theater audio information, wherein individual home theater timestamps in the first plurality of home theater timestamps indicate times at which corresponding portions of the home theater audio information is to be played by a first type of playback device; assigning a second plurality of home theater timestamps to portions of the home theater audio information, wherein individual home theater timestamps in the second plurality of home theater timestamps indicate times at which corresponding portions of the home theater audio information is to be played by a second type of playback device; and sending the first plurality of home theater timestamps and corresponding portions of home theater audio information to the first type of playback device and sending the second plurality of home theater timestamps and corresponding portions of home theater audio information to 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: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15296304', '13632731', '15087404', '15876970', '13937890']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6903981452486523
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.483955764936244
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6697539072174115
- Mean Citation Score: 205.497906
- Max Citation Score: 249.16112
- Similarity Product: 218.091691213932

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