PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16157912
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["340", "012520"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus are provided for group-controlling devices. Group information on interoperable devices among a plurality of electronic devices is acquired. The interoperable devices indicated in the group information are controlled as a group.

Claim (Index 8):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n identifying a specific device that triggered an interrupt, when the control event is the interrupt; determining whether there are any devices in use among at least one other device interoperable with the specific device; integrally controlling the specific device and the devices interoperable with the specific device as a group, when there is no device in use among the at least one other device interoperable with the specific device; determining a type of the interrupt, when there is another device in use among the at least one other device interoperable with the specific device; determining whether to reconfigure the group of devices in use according to the type of the interrupt; controlling a function of the specific device according to the interrupt, when reconfiguration is not necessary; and controlling the devices as a group according to the interrupt, when reconfiguration is necessary.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.37037
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13629011', '13957255', '15413158', '13629033', '14666978']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6380061799171474
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5159647249103958
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6258020344164722
- Mean Citation Score: 164.30779079999996
- Max Citation Score: 272.0267
- Similarity Product: 187.6925852917016

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