PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15880151
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["381", "092000"]

Abstract:
A microphone module comprises a housing, an audio bus, and a first plurality of microphones in communication with the audio bus. The microphone module further comprises a module processor in communication with the first plurality of microphones and the audio bus. The module processor is configured to detect the presence of an array processor in communication with the audio bus, detect the presence of a second microphone module in communication with the audio bus, and configure the audio bus to pass audio signals from both the first plurality of microphones and the second microphone module to the array processor.

Claim (Index 25):
A modular array microphone system comprising:\n an array processor; an audio bus; N microphone modules, where N is at least 2; wherein each of the N microphone modules comprises:\n a housing; \n a plurality of microphones supported by the housing; and \n a module processor in communication with the plurality of microphones and the audio bus; \n wherein the audio bus connects the array processor and the N microphone modules such that the plurality of microphones in each of the N microphone modules is in communication with the array processor; wherein one or more of the array processor and the module processors in the N microphone modules is configured to:\n (i) detect a quantity and a connection order of the N microphone modules; and \n (ii) configure the audio bus to route audio signals from the plurality of microphones in each of the N microphone modules to the array processor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 48.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.02857
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11095900', '14979822', '15323068', '15280343', '10792313']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.658809390834967
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4978980610746074
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6427182578589311
- Mean Citation Score: 175.12030800000005
- Max Citation Score: 180.35251
- Similarity Product: 132.92235626968505

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

Dataset: test