PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16029311
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["455", "003060"]

Abstract:
Embodiments are provided for syncing multiple electronic devices for collective audio playback. According to certain aspects, a master device connects ( 218 ) to a slave device via a wireless connection. The master device calculates ( 224 ) a network latency via a series of network latency pings with the slave device and sends ( 225 ) the network latency to the slave device. Further, the master devices sends ( 232 ) a portion of an audio file as well as a timing instruction including a system time to the slave device. The master device initiates ( 234 ) playback of the portion of the audio file and the slave devices initiates ( 236 ) playback of the portion of the audio file according to the timing instruction and a calculated system clock offset value.

Claim (Index 11):
A master playback device comprising:\n a communication component for connecting the master playback device to (i) an audio playback device via a local area network to form an audio playback session for playback of audio content, (ii) a remote server via a wide area network; a user interface; an audio output component; and a processor interfaced with the communication component, the user interface, and the audio output component, and configured to:\n cause the user interface to present a plurality of items of audio content available for playback, \n receive, via the user interface, a selection of a first audio item of the plurality of items of audio content for playback in the audio playback session, \n retrieve, from the remote server via the communication component, first audio data corresponding to the first audio item, \n transmit, to the audio playback device via the communication component, (i) the first audio data, and (ii) a timing signal, and \n cause the audio output component to output the first audio data in synchrony with the audio playback device playing the first audio data based on the timing signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32787
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16029262', '13945493', '15794868', '15794686', '15052503']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7212227377315553
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5084426427332385
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6999447282317237
- Mean Citation Score: 276.649534
- Max Citation Score: 299.71158
- Similarity Product: 230.2221555511165

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