PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16115546
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["348", "734000"]

Abstract:
A television remote control device having a communicator configured to wirelessly communicate with a media device to send a mute signal and an unmute signal to the media device, to mute the media device for a predetermined time period, is disclosed. The device includes countdown timer for muting a television for a predetermined time period, such as 30, 60, or 90 seconds, which may be used, for instance, to mute commercials. A timer set button is configured to receive a mute command from the user and actuate the communicator to send the mute signal to mute the media device. A countdown timer is electronically connected to the communicator, and the communicator is configured to send an unmute signal to the media device upon expiration of the predetermined time period. A display screen is configured to display the counting down of time of the predetermined period.

Claim (Index 8):
A method for temporarily muting a media device with a remote control device comprising a timer and a timer set button, comprising:\n receiving a mute command from a user upon a first depression of the timer set button, said timer set button electronically connected to a communicator and the timer, said timer set button configured to receive the mute command from the user upon the first depression of said timer set button and actuate the communicator to send a mute signal to mute the media device upon the first depression of the timer set button; sending the mute signal to mute the media device for a predetermined time period via the communicator, said communicator configured to wirelessly communicate with the media device to send the mute signal to mute the media device for a predetermined time period upon receiving the mute command from the user, said communicator configured to automatically send an unmute signal to unmute the media device upon expiration of the predetermined time period; actuating a timer electronically connected to the communicator, said timer configured for counting down of time until an expiration of the predetermined time period upon the first depression of the timer set button, wherein said first depression of the timer set button by the user initiates counting down of time until the expiration of the predetermined time period; displaying the remaining time of the countdown timer on a display screen on the remote control; and automatically sending a wireless unmute signal to the media device via the communicator to unmute the media device upon expiration of the predetermined time period.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.52381
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15601855', '14149028', '11181684', '10166720', '10047677']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6135645652781493
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4863180577341329
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6008399145237476
- Mean Citation Score: 188.635416
- Max Citation Score: 211.81575
- Similarity Product: 153.9247775488794

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test