PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15972383
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["700", "094000"]

Abstract:
A system is described for maintaining synchrony of operations among a plurality of devices that have independent clocking arrangements. The system includes a task distribution device that distributes tasks to a synchrony group comprising a plurality of devices that are to perform the tasks distributed by the task distribution device in synchrony. The task distribution device distributes each task to the members of the synchrony group over a network. Each task is associated with a time stamp that indicates a time, relative to a clock maintained by the task distribution device, at which the members of the synchrony group are to execute the task. Each member of the synchrony group periodically obtains from the task distribution device an indication of the current time indicated by its clock, determines a time differential between the task distribution device's clock and its respective clock and determines therefrom a time at which, according to its respective clock, the time stamp indicates that it is to execute the task.

Claim (Index 12):
The method of  claim 11 , further comprising the first zone player storing status information indicating membership in the synchrony group.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14184935', '15089758', '14186850', '14184528', '13435776']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3691293780102439
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5092311066586379
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3831395508750833
- Mean Citation Score: 313.659652
- Max Citation Score: 322.80048
- Similarity Product: 249.6730767201233

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