PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16174245
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["381", "082000"]

Abstract:
Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to control audio playback devices are disclosed. An example first playback device includes a speaker driver, a processor, and a computer readable medium including a set of instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the first playback device to implement a method. The example method includes receiving, from a first audio information source, first audio information. The example method includes playing back the first audio information. The example method includes receiving, from a second audio information source, (i) a first message, and (ii) second audio information. Based on the received first message, the example method includes (i) determining that the first playback device and a second playback device are to playback the second audio information; (ii) stopping play back of the first audio information; (iii) playing back, via the speaker driver, the second audio information; and (iv) sending the second audio information to the second playback device.

Claim (Index 10):
The playback device of  claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:\n saving, in the tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media, one or more configuration settings for the playback device and a second playback device; based on the configuration settings, determining to send the second audio information to the second playback device; and after determining to send the second audio information to the second playback device, (a) sending the second audio information to the second playback device and (b) playing the second audio information in synchrony with the second playback device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.03175
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14570869', '15489918', '13274059', '15098592', '16102554']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7022599953278235
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5410860320797435
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6861425990030156
- Mean Citation Score: 247.426838
- Max Citation Score: 293.54608
- Similarity Product: 244.04034682707783

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