PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15985768
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["381", "086000"]

Abstract:
Vehicle communication systems and methods of operating the same. The vehicle communication system includes one or more microphones and one or more loudspeakers positioned about a vehicle. The system includes processor executable instructions for determining that the vehicle is operating in an emergency mode and, in response, activating a first microphone and a first loudspeaker for enabling communication between a first acoustic zone within the vehicle and a second acoustic zone exterior to the vehicle. The system may detect, from one of the first acoustic zone and the second acoustic zone, a first acoustic input and generate a second signal from the detected first acoustic input. The system may transmit the second signal to the first loudspeaker for producing sound waves that are audible in the other of the first acoustic zone and the second acoustic zone.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of operating a communication system in a vehicle, the communication system including one or more microphones and one or more loudspeakers, the communication system enabling active noise control operations when operating in a normal mode for minimizing audible sound waves in an interior acoustic zone that originate from an exterior acoustic zone, the interior acoustic zone being within the vehicle and the exterior acoustic zone being exterior to the vehicle, the method comprising:\n determining that the vehicle is operating in an emergency mode and in response:\n disabling the active noise control operations and activating a first microphone and a first loudspeaker for enabling communication between the interior acoustic zone and the exterior acoustic zone; and \n activating a wireless communication channel between a remote device and the communication system; \n detecting a first acoustic input using the one or more microphones; determining that the detected first acoustic input originates from the exterior acoustic zone and not the interior acoustic zone; and establishing an audio communications link between the exterior acoustic zone and the remote device via the communication channel, whereby the audio communications link enables voice communications between a bystander and the remote device operated by a public safety answering point.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 37.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.39344
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15493910', '15436311', '12693176', '11780468', '13346854']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6853724097091484
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4766822437796214
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6645033931161957
- Mean Citation Score: 180.64656
- Max Citation Score: 183.359
- Similarity Product: 137.9503353717327

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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