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 13):
A method for monitoring a digital media receiver comprising:\n a. providing one or more receivers b. providing one or more digital media streams c. providing a monitoring server d. providing a connection from each said receiver to one or more of said digital media streams e. providing a configured stream predetermined for each said receiver to define said digital media stream said receiver should be receiving f. providing a connection parameter data source such as a channel map, a guide, service information or system information sent to said receiver and sent to said monitoring server g. whereby said monitoring server repeatedly checks the latest connection parameters using said connection parameter data source and compares said connection parameters to the current connection parameters used by said active receiver as a means for determining if re-connecting 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): 0.3681032556352578
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5127164333424767
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3825645734059797
- Mean Citation Score: 169.329084
- Max Citation Score: 299.80154
- Similarity Product: 260.08595087653754

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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