PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16404366
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["709", "224000"]

Abstract:
Systems, methods, and apparatus to identify media devices are disclosed. An example method includes establishing a table of device identifiers and respective media access control (MAC) addresses corresponding to devices on a home network, the device identifiers provided by a panelist associated with the home network during a registration process. The home network is monitored for a network communication sent by a requesting device separate from a network communications monitor, the network communications monitor installed in the home network associated with a panelist home. A device identifier of the requesting device is identified from the table of device identifiers and respective MAC addresses based on a MAC address of the requesting device. In response to a failure to identify the device identifier, the panelist is prompted to provide the device identifier for the requesting device.

Claim (Index 1):
A network communications monitor to identify a media device, the network communications monitor comprising:\n a network communicator to connect to a home network associated with a panelist home, and monitor the home network for a network communication sent by a requesting device separate from the network communications monitor, the network communication having a destination other than the network communications monitor; a communications processor to:\n store a table of device identifiers and respective media access control addresses corresponding to registered devices on the home network, the device identifiers provided by a panelist associated with the home network during a registration process; \n in response to the network communicator detecting the network communication transmitted on the home network, attempt to identify a device identifier of the requesting device from the table of device identifiers and respective media access control addresses based on a media access control address of the requesting device; and \n in response to a failure to identify the device identifier, initiate prompting of the panelist to provide a device identifier for the unidentified device; and \n a communications data storer to:\n store data identifying the network communication in association with at least one of the device identifier or the media access control address in a network communications data store when the device identifier is identified, and \n store the data identifying the network communication in association with the media access control address when the device identifier is not identified.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26154
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15588245', '13931750', '13329044', '15299766', '15084929']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2999004492798605
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.525694489089441
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3224798532608185
- Mean Citation Score: 261.95058
- Max Citation Score: 358.57504
- Similarity Product: 344.89858228221885

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