PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16049325
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["709", "204000"]

Abstract:
The current invention discloses methods and devices for adding a new member to a group, e.g. a chat group associated with a chat program. The new member may be added through a barcode-scanning process or an existing-member-invitation process. After the new member is added to the chat group, a server may send notification messages to mobile devices associated with the existing members of the group. The contents of the notification messages may vary based on the processes by which the new member is added, the number of existing members, and the direct-contact relationships the new member has with the existing members. The current invention provides simplified methods and devices for adding the new member, avoiding cumbersome operations and protecting member privacy at the same time.

Claim (Index 9):
A server for adding a new member to a chat group having a plurality of existing members, the server comprising:\n one or more processors; memory; and a plurality of programs stored in the memory and configured for execution by the one or more processors, the plurality of programs including: receiving a joining request to add the new member to the chat group, wherein the joining request is sent by a first mobile device associated with the new member using a barcode-scanning process, wherein the barcode-scanning process further comprises:\n scanning a barcode encoding chat group information corresponding to the chat group using the first mobile device; \n decoding the barcode using a barcode decoding module to obtain the chat group information corresponding to the chat group; and \n generating the joining request based on the chat group information, the joining request including the chat group information and new member information corresponding to the new member; \n adding the new member to the chat group using the new member information without further authorization from the existing members of the chat group; and sending a notification message to the existing members of the chat group, the notification message indicating that the new member has been added to the chat group using the barcode-scanning process.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 48.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19355
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14095929', '10824464', '13994081', '11476920', '15831809']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.254060767377165
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.540917319896159
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2827464226290644
- Mean Citation Score: 216.98491
- Max Citation Score: 396.0452
- Similarity Product: 337.8122680349352

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

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