PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16162491
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["455", "411000"]

Abstract:
A method can include the steps of logging in of mobile devices of participants when they are located in the same physical conference environment and managing the resources of these devices such that the resources of the logged-in devices are combined into an audio system to output audio conference information using a sound output process in the conference environment. The conference environment may be a conference room. The audio conference information may be audio to be output to the participants at the conference environment. The formed audio system can include speakers of the user devices for outputting such audio. The microphones of the user devices may also be used to form an audio input system for the conference for allowing audio of the participants to be received and transmitted during the conference. A communication system can be configured to implement embodiments of the method.

Claim (Index 21):
A method for managing a teleconference, comprising:\n logging in of mobile devices located in a same conference environment for use in the conference environment during a teleconference, the mobile devices comprising a first mobile device, and a second mobile device; managing speakers of the logged in mobile devices to utilize the speakers of the logged in mobile devices in the conference environment for output of audio during the teleconference by a speaker management process, the speaker management process comprising:\n after the logging in of the first and second mobile devices, determining speaker capabilities of the first and second mobile devices via a local media controller communicating with the first and second mobile devices; \n assigning roles to the first and second mobile devices for utilization of a first speaker of the first mobile device and a second speaker of the second mobile device during the teleconference via wireless communication with the local media controller, the roles being assigned such that the first speaker is assigned to a first channel for output of audio of the teleconference in the conference environment during the teleconference and the second speaker is assigned to a second channel for output of audio of the teleconference audio in the conference environment during the teleconference; \n managing microphones of the logged in mobile devices to utilize the microphones of the logged in mobile devices in the conference environment to generate a three dimensional microphone field for recording of audio via the microphones during the teleconference for transmission of the recorded audio for the teleconference, wherein the managing of the microphones of the logged in mobile devices comprises using a first microphone of the first mobile device and a second microphone of the second mobile device to form the three dimensional microphone field for recording of the audio via the microphones during the teleconference for transmission of the recorded audio for the teleconference; and using the three dimensional microphone field to both (i) locate and spatially separate sound sources in the conference environment and (ii) spatially organize sound signals illustrated in a virtual conference room representing the conference environment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38095
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15824260', '14631939', '15073799', '13967687', '15869387']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6884505899004915
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5630473206593334
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6759102629763757
- Mean Citation Score: 296.852794
- Max Citation Score: 431.77405
- Similarity Product: 430.4885755790085

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