PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16221749
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["370", "315000"]

Abstract:
[Problem] To provide an audio communication system wherein a relaying device is connected to terminal devices, which are communication devices, via a communication network and wherein the relaying device is caused to manage the group of the terminal devices. [Solution] An audio communication system comprises: a master relaying device; one or more slave relaying devices connected to the master relaying device via a communication network; and one or more terminal devices connected to each relaying device via a communication network. Each slave relaying device transfers, to the master relaying device, audio signals received from the terminal device in charge of the slave relaying device. The master relaying device transfers the audio signals, which were received from each slave relaying device, to the slave relaying devices other than that slave relaying device.

Claim (Index 1):
A relaying device, comprising:\n a network communication unit connected to a communication network and communicating with a plurality of terminal devices and another relaying device over the communication network; a table storing a transfer destination of an audio signal of a group communication which is communication with terminal devices belonging to a group; and a control unit controlling the group communication operating itself in a master mode or in a slave mode, wherein the table stores, for setting the relaying device to a master mode, subordinate-group terminal devices which are both belonging to the group and subordinate to the relaying device and a slave relaying device which is another relaying device communicating a terminal device belonging to the group as the transfer destination,\n or stores, for setting the relaying device to a slave mode, subordinate-group terminal devices and a master relaying device which is another relaying device set to the master mode as the transfer destination, \n in the master mode, the control unit transfers an audio signal of the group communication received from one of the subordinate-group terminal devices to the other of the subordinate-group terminal devices and the slave relaying device, and also transfers an audio signal of the group communication received from the slave relaying device to the other slave relaying device and all the subordinate-group terminal devices, and in the slave mode, the control unit transfers an audio signal of the group communication received from one of the subordinate-group terminal devices to the other of the subordinate-group terminal devices and the master relaying device, and also transfers an audio signal received from the master relaying device to all the subordinate-group terminal devices.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.79245
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15123913', '15032408', '15033197', '15123873', '15033184']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.495350742187878
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5597369094569866
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5017893589147889
- Mean Citation Score: 258.13329600000003
- Max Citation Score: 432.30206
- Similarity Product: 349.8403892837524

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test