PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16173797
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["704", "275000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein are example techniques to identify a voice service to process a voice input. An example implementation may involve a playback device capturing, via a microphone array, audio into one or more buffers. The playback device analyzes analyzing the captured audio using multiple wake-word detection algorithms. When a particular wake-word detection algorithm detects a wake-word corresponding to a particular voice assistant service, the playback device transmits the captured audio to the particular voice assistant service. The captured audio includes a voice input that includes a command to modify at least one playback setting of a media playback system. After transmitting the captured audio, the playback device receives, from the particular voice assistant service, instructions to modify the at least one playback setting according to the command, modifies the at least one playback setting, and with the at least one playback setting modified, plays back at least one audio track.

Claim (Index 15):
A method comprising:\n continuously capturing, via a microphone array of a playback device, audio into one or more buffers; analyzing the captured audio using multiple wake-word detection algorithms running concurrently on one or more processors of the playback device, each wake-word detection algorithm corresponding to a respective voice assistant service among multiple voice assistant services supported by the playback device; when a particular wake-word detection algorithm of the multiple wake-word detection algorithms detects, in the captured audio, a wake-word corresponding to a particular voice assistant service, transmitting, via a network interface of the playback device, the captured audio to the particular voice assistant service, wherein the captured audio comprises a voice input, wherein the voice input comprises a command to modify at least one playback setting of a media playback system, and wherein the media playback system comprises the playback device; after transmitting the captured audio, receiving, from one or more servers of the particular voice assistant service via the network interface, instructions to modify the at least one playback setting according to the command; modifying the at least one playback setting based on the instructions; and with the at least one playback setting modified, playing back at least one audio track via one or more amplifiers configured to drive one or more speakers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35714
- Patent Class: 704.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15229868', '15670361', '15211689', '15277810', '15946585']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2524233623983443
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5023746665088449
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2774184928093944
- Mean Citation Score: 259.00704800000005
- Max Citation Score: 290.4203
- Similarity Product: 263.4175319188833

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