PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15967345
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["084", "645000"]

Abstract:
A system and method eliminate the drag associated with CPU drag on experienced by combine audio streams from multiple sources. The embodiments receive audio signals from two separate audio sources and apply a MIDI based timing signature to the audio signals. The audio signals are synchronized according to the MTC signature signal and combined, when synchronized, at a summing module for output as a combined audio stream. Some embodiments include monitoring for and publishing a start/stop command signal to users in the collaboration to help synchronize audio signals from the different users.

Claim (Index 1):
An audio processing system for providing collaborative input of music streams, comprising:\n a housing including:\n a first USB audio input hub for receiving a first audio signal from a first digital audio workstation, \n a second USB audio input hub for receiving a second audio signal from a second digital audio workstation, \n a musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) timing engine coupled to the first USB audio input hub and to the second USB audio input hub, the MIDI timing engine generating a MIDI time code (MTC) timing signature signal provided to the first USB audio input hub and to the second USB audio input hub; \n a controller coupled to the MIDI timing engine, configured to synchronize transmission of the first audio signal from the first digital audio workstation through the first USB audio input hub with the second audio signal from the second digital audio workstation through the second USB audio input hub using the MTC timing signature signal; \n a summing module coupled to the first USB audio input hub and to the second USB audio input hub, the summing module configured to:\n sum the synchronized output of the first audio signal from the first digital audio workstation from the first USB audio input hub with the second audio signal from the second digital audio workstation from the second USB audio input hub, and \n output the synchronized and summed first audio signal and second audio signal as a combined audio signal; and \n \n a software application executed by the controller, where the controller is further configured to:\n monitor for a synchronization command registered by the first digital audio workstation, \n send the synchronization start/stop command to the controller, and \n publish the synchronization start/stop command to the second digital audio workstation for a synchronized start/stop event.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.63333
- Patent Class: 84.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15588413', '13718298', '12042181', '12042170', '14804569']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5892167410319176
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5388777285604992
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5841828397847758
- Mean Citation Score: 213.47231800000003
- Max Citation Score: 402.6881
- Similarity Product: 400.6581239862501

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