PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15912137
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["715", "716000"]

Abstract:
Example techniques may involve tuning a music discovery dial. An implementation may include displaying, on the touch-sensitive circular graphical display, a circular graphical user interface including multiple wedge-shaped selectable regions arranged around the circumference of the circular graphical user interface, each wedge-shaped selectable region corresponding to a respective streaming audio channel. The implementation may include detecting a touch input in a circular motion to the touch-sensitive circular graphical display and causing a paired playback device to play back an audio content snippet corresponding to each selectable regions that the touch input enters. The implementation may further include switching the playback device from playing back a given pre-cached audio content snippet to playing back the full audio track from one or more servers of a streaming audio service.

Claim (Index 1):
A command device comprising:\n a network interface; one or more processors; a touch-sensitive circular graphical display; a housing carrying the network interface, the one or more processors, the circular touch-sensitive user interface, and data storage storing pre-cached audio content snippets and instructions executable by the one or more processors to cause the command device to perform operations comprising:\n displaying, on the touch-sensitive circular graphical display, a circular graphical user interface comprising multiple wedge-shaped selectable regions arranged around the circumference of the circular graphical user interface, each wedge-shaped selectable region corresponding to a respective streaming audio channel; \n detecting a touch input in a circular motion to the touch-sensitive circular graphical display; \n when the touch input enters a first wedge-shaped selectable region, causing, via the network interface, one or more playback devices that are paired with the command device to play back a first pre-cached audio content snippet corresponding to the first wedge-shaped selectable region, wherein the first pre-cached audio content snippet consists of a portion of a first audio track that is representative of a first streaming audio channel corresponding to the first wedge-shaped selectable region; \n when the touch input enters a second wedge-shaped selectable region, causing, via the network interface, the one or more playback devices that are paired with the command device to play back a second pre-cached audio content snippet corresponding to the second wedge-shaped selectable region, wherein the second pre-cached audio content snippet consists of a portion of a second audio track that is representative of a second streaming audio channel corresponding to the second wedge-shaped selectable region; and \n as the second pre-cached audio content snippet plays back on the one or more playback devices, switching the one or more playback devices from playing back the second pre-cached audio content snippet to playing back the second audio track from one or more servers of a streaming audio service by stitching together the second audio content snippet and the second audio track such that playback transitions seamlessly from the pre-cached second audio content snippet to the second audio track.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88732
- Patent Class: 715.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15725378', '14683467', '14853350', '15092448', '15091406']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2984516149350391
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4670575901303679
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3153122124545719
- Mean Citation Score: 156.96120000000005
- Max Citation Score: 161.37148
- Similarity Product: 117.0369559939337

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