PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16174703
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["726", "028000"]

Abstract:
Example techniques facilitate for applying a share restriction to a curated playlist within a shared playback queue. In example implementations, a first media playback system may share its playback queue with a second media playback system. The playback queue of the first media playback system may include a curated playlist associated with a share restriction. When sharing its playback queue of the first media playback system, the first media playback system may enforce the share restriction on the curated playlist as queued in a second playback queue of the second media playback system.

Claim (Index 8):
A tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media having instructions stored thereon that are executable by a first media playback system to cause the first media playback system to perform a method comprising:\n receiving, via a network interface of the first media playback system from a mobile device, data representing an instruction to queue a curated playlist of audio tracks to a first playback queue for playback via one or more first playback devices of the first media playback system, wherein the curated playlist of audio tracks consists of a proprietary set of audio tracks defined and arranged into a particular sequence by a particular streaming audio service, wherein the audio tracks of the curated playlist are streamable from one or more servers of the particular streaming audio service; based on receiving the data representing an instruction to queue the curated playlist of audio tracks to a first playback queue, adding, via the first media playback system, respective representations of each audio track within the curated playlist to the first playback queue, wherein the first playback queue is maintained in data storage of the one or more first playback devices, and wherein the respective representations of each audio track within the curated playlist indicate respective network locations of each audio track at the one or more servers of the particular streaming audio service; receiving, via the network interface of the first media playback system, data indicating an instruction to share the first playback queue with a second media playback system that comprises one or more second playback devices, wherein the first playback queue comprises the curated playlist of audio tracks; based on receiving the data indicating the instruction to share the first playback queue with the second media playback system, determining whether the particular streaming audio service applied a share restriction to the curated playlist; based on determining that the particular streaming audio service applied the share restriction to the curated playlist, determining whether the second media playback system is subscribed to the particular streaming audio service, wherein the share restriction restricts the curated playlist of audio tracks to subscribers of the particular streaming audio service; and based on (a) receiving the data indicating the instruction to share the first playback queue with the second media playback system and (b) determining that the second media playback system is unsubscribed to the particular streaming audio service, sending, via the network interface of the first media playback system to the second media playback system, one or more instructions to (i) add respective representations of each audio track in the first playback queue to a second playback queue for playback via the one or more second playback devices of the second media playback system and (ii) apply the share restriction to the respective representations of the audio tracks within the curated playlist that are queued in the second playback queue of the second media playback system, wherein applying the share restriction to the respective representations of the audio tracks within the curated playlist that are queued in the second playback queue of the second media playback system causes the one or more second playback devices to have limited access according to the share restriction to the audio tracks within the curated playlist that are queued in the second playback queue, and wherein access to other audio tracks in the second playback queue is not limited according to the share restriction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53846
- Patent Class: 726.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16011838', '15099846', '14683467', '15099813', '15692090']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2800207639903891
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4710449397985321
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2991231815712034
- Mean Citation Score: 213.24720399999995
- Max Citation Score: 216.7208
- Similarity Product: 183.63153677678108

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