PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15933296
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["340", "815450"]

Abstract:
Users may control visual cues reflective of the user's social intentions and/or state of perception during use of personal electronic devices. In some embodiments, the visual cues may be provided by visual indicators on headphones, such as a multi-color LED, which change status based on the user's desired interactions with others. An LED embedded within an earphone may, for example, glow red when a user prefers not to be interrupted or when a user's device inhibits perception of external sounds, or glow green when a user is open to and available for interaction with others. The visual indicator status may be controlled manually by a user, or automatically. Visual cues may implement multiple discrete states, or may vary along a continuum of color and/or illumination level. A cloud server may track a user's visual cue state, for use in controlling or otherwise interacting with other network-connected services.

Claim (Index 1):
An indicator for visually conveying information concerning the availability for interaction with others of a user of a personal electronic device, comprising:\n a visual indicator having a plurality of visually-differentiable states, the visual indicator positioned proximate the user and oriented for visibility to other individuals in the user's vicinity; and a controller operable to switch the visual indicator between said plurality of visually-differentiable states.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71134
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13292773', '11227248', '11292560', '11178105', '14323667']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.626852660345413
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4929417230476265
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6134615666156343
- Mean Citation Score: 98.5582102
- Max Citation Score: 98.661026
- Similarity Product: 57.739879636582025

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