PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15964443
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["725", "014000"]

Abstract:
The invention provides a method for monitoring a digital media receiver (including receivers for television or other type of digital media) to determine whether it is necessary for a receiver to re-connect in order to continue receiving a predetermined channel or stream. This invention is useful in digital media monitoring systems and in situations with many receivers connected to the same signal source and predetermined channels defined to be output by each receiver. One embodiment of the invention uses an auditing receiver that constantly scans the upstream channel-map, guide data, service information or system information to determine if the connection parameters required for receiving each predetermined stream have changed. Some examples of connection parameters include packet identifiers (PIDs), radio frequency (RF) channel and uniform resource locator (URL), depending on the type of broadcast and stream. When the auditing receiver gathers the latest connection parameters, a monitoring system compares the recently checked connection parameters to the connection parameters currently in use on each other receiver to determine if each receiver needs to be re-connected to continue receiving the predetermined stream defined for that receiver.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for monitoring a digital media receiver comprising:\n a. providing one or more active receivers b. providing one or more digital media streams c. providing a monitoring server d. providing a connection from each active receiver to one or more digital media streams e. providing a configured stream predetermined for each active receiver to define the stream the active receiver should be receiving f. providing an auditing receiver for checking current required connection parameters to receive a given digital media stream g. providing a connection parameter data source such as a channel map, a guide, service information or system information sent to said active receiver and sent to said auditing receiver h. whereby said monitoring server repeatedly communicates with said auditing receiver to check said connection parameter data source to get latest parameters for receiving said digital media stream and compares said parameters to the current connection parameters on said active receiver as a means for determining if re-connection on said active receiver is necessary to continue receiving said configured stream.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01
- Patent Class: 725.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14738151', '12422873', '11963175', '13264370', '14636575']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.367880230555932
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5143225639546847
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3825244638958073
- Mean Citation Score: 169.329084
- Max Citation Score: 299.80154
- Similarity Product: 251.48468627712845

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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