PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15939501
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["348", "014070"]

Abstract:
A non-Skype multipoint control unit (MCU) is configured to operate differently for handling incoming streams from endpoints and outgoing streams from a Skype multipoint control unit. When passing incoming streams from non-Skype endpoints to a Skype conference, the non-Skype MCU acts as a gateway, passing the streams to Skype MCU as if they were coming from Skype endpoints. When receiving outgoing streams from Skype MCU, the non-Skype MCU acts as an MCU, transcoding, compositing, and scaling streams into continuous presence layouts for delivery to the non-Skype endpoints. Thus, non-Skype endpoints can participate in Skype conferences as if they were Skype endpoints, allowing a better user experience for both Skype endpoints and non-Skype endpoints.

Claim (Index 1):
A conferencing method for connecting endpoints of one type to a conference of another type, comprising:\n receiving instructions from a first endpoint of a first type to join a conference of a second type; connecting the first endpoint to the conference via a first multipoint control unit of the first type; gatewaying a stream received by the first multipoint control unit from the first endpoint to a second multipoint control unit controlling the conference; processing a plurality of conference streams received by the first multipoint control unit from the second multipoint control unit, wherein the plurality of conference streams includes streams from endpoints of the second type connected to the second multipoint control unit; and delivering one or more streams corresponding to the plurality of conference streams to the first endpoint.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 42.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26786
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14216401', '13105723', '11741088', '13629216', '14217275']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6125146067106663
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4801298618761543
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5992761322272151
- Mean Citation Score: 191.492074
- Max Citation Score: 194.0788
- Similarity Product: 142.0129186658144

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