PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16154201
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["381", "314000"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems are described for transferring programming information to a hearing instrument. Such programming information may include hearing loss compensation parameters and/or other information pertaining to device operation. In one embodiment, each of a pair of hearing instruments prescribed and configured for a particular hearing loss contains the necessary information for operation on either the left or right ear. The data from one hearing instrument may then be transferred to the other hearing instrument by means of wireless communication. In other embodiments, programming information is transferred wirelessly by an external device connected to a database.

Claim (Index 8):
A hearing instrument, comprising:\n processing circuitry for processing an input signal from a microphone into an output signal for driving a speaker; a wireless transceiver connected to the processing circuitry; an antenna connected to the wireless transceiver; wherein the processing circuitry is configured to: determine whether the hearing instrument is programmed to operate as a member of a binaural pair of hearing instruments on a first side of the patient using a first set of programming parameters or on a second side of the patient using a second set of programming parameters based upon a resistive identification tag inserted into the hearing instrument, wherein the resistive identification tag is incorporated into either a receiver-in-canal (RIC) cable for an RIC hearing instrument or a behind-the-ear (BTE) hook for a BTE hearing instrument; when it is determined that the hearing instrument is genetically programmed, wireless transmit a request to a second heating instrument for programming information relating to the first set of programming parameters or the second set of programming parameters as indicated by resistive identification tag inserted into the hearing instrument; upon receipt of the programming information, begin operation using the first or second set of programming parameters.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.66129
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14854730', '13779477', '14940562', '13368760', '13915391']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6171210604741454
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.520196963155717
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6074286507423026
- Mean Citation Score: 181.116838
- Max Citation Score: 326.39886
- Similarity Product: 315.83158733757017

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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