PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15922531
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["725", "133000"]

Abstract:
As may be implemented in accordance with one or more embodiments, methods and/or apparatuses involve translating control signals between remote input devices and endpoint devices that are to be controlled. Received control commands are selectively translated based on an endpoint device to be controlled, and an output signal is provided for controlling the endpoint device in accordance with the received control commands. This approach facilitates the use of an input device for controlling an endpoint device, without necessarily requiring that the input device is configured to provide control signals that the endpoint device can operate upon.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus comprising:\n communication circuitry configured and arranged for receiving wireless communications from a plurality of disparate remote input devices that respectively provide wireless communications including disparate control commands that are specific to each remote input device; logic circuitry configured and arranged to identify a plurality of endpoint devices to be operated for carrying out an operation specified via each of the disparate control commands, and to translate the disparate control commands received from different ones of the remote input devices into output control commands for operating the plurality of endpoint devices for carrying out the operation by, for each received control command:\n identifying the endpoint devices to be controlled with the received control command; and \n selectively translating the received control command into output control commands for respectively controlling the identified endpoint devices; and \n output circuitry configured and arranged to control the endpoint devices for carrying out an operation specified via the received control command by communicating the output control command to the endpoint devices.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72881
- Patent Class: 725.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15377778', '15377797', '14043440', '15240391', '15590140']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4302812829366589
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4722210407194739
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4344752587149404
- Mean Citation Score: 160.06432800000005
- Max Citation Score: 168.56706
- Similarity Product: 125.0581480398488

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

Dataset: test