PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15967343
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["725", "110000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for providing packetized content to users via a bandwidth-optimized network. In one embodiment, legacy and IPTV streams are carried over the same switched digital infrastructure, and freely intermixed without regard to their encoding or type. A user's selection for IPTV content is transmitted to an IP proxy (such as a gateway apparatus or a headend server), then on to the switched digital server which causes provision of the requested content back to the proxy for formatting. The formatted content is then delivered to the requesting IP-capable device. The entire carrier class program stream is therefore available as IP-encapsulated content to the IP capable devices (and as legacy content to legacy devices) without any significant modifications to the network infrastructure or bandwidth penalty.

Claim (Index 39):
A server apparatus configured for operation within a content delivery network, the server apparatus comprising:\n at least one data communication interface configured for data communication with the content delivery network; processor apparatus in data communication with the at least one data communication interface; and at least one storage device in data communication with the processor apparatus, the at least one storage device configured to store at least one computer program thereon, the at least one computer program comprising a plurality of instructions which are configured to, when executed by the processor apparatus, cause the server apparatus to:\n identify data indicative of a first request for internet protocol (IP) content from a first user device and data indicative of a second request for non-IP content from a second user device, the first user device and the second user device associated with a first service group of the content delivery network; and \n based at least in part on the identification of the data indicative of the first request and data indicative of the second request, select one or more existing quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) radio frequency (RF) channels to enable (i) delivery of the IP digital content, and (ii) simultaneous delivery of the non-IP digital content within a first transport stream; \n wherein the selection comprises unrestricted selection of the one or more existing QAM RF channels agnostic to an IP encoding of the IP digital content and a non-IP encoding of the non-IP digital content.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.66265
- Patent Class: 725.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14663223', '12841906', '12764746', '13843322', '15219083']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5044586682805678
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5478716071372847
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5087999621662396
- Mean Citation Score: 377.162876
- Max Citation Score: 406.6938
- Similarity Product: 310.2528806470871

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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