PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15900342
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["340", "012500"]

Abstract:
In response to a detected presence of an intended target appliance within a logical topography of controllable appliances identity information associated with the intended target appliance is used to automatically add to a graphical user interface of a controlling device an icon representative of the intended target appliance and to create at a Universal Control Engine a listing of communication methods for use in controlling corresponding functional operations of the intended target appliance. When the icon is later activated, the controlling device is placed into an operating state appropriate for controlling functional operations of the intended target appliance while the Universal Control Engine uses at least one of the communication methods to transmit at least one command to place the intended target appliance into a predetermined operating state.

Claim (Index 15):
The switching device as recited in  claim 9 , wherein the switching device is further configured to use the selected one of the plurality of content consuming activities to identify the sink device from among a plurality of sink devices connected to corresponding ones of the plurality of AV ports and identify a second AV port from among the plurality of AV ports to which the sink device is connected whereby the first AV port is automatically connected to the second AV port.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01538
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15900232', '15789547', '15900089', '15626357', '14136023']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.747602270049565
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5304049203555242
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.725882535080161
- Mean Citation Score: 317.735904
- Max Citation Score: 329.8354
- Similarity Product: 228.8426421204686

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