PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16129758
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["700", "094000"]

Abstract:
Technology for grouping, consolidating, and pairing individual playback devices with network capability (players) to stimulate a multi-channel listening environment is disclosed. An example method includes receiving an audio signal containing a range of audio frequencies; amplifying, according to a gain parameter, the audio signal to be reproduced by at least one speaker. The example method includes automatically increasing the gain parameter to a higher gain parameter responsive to a determination that no more than a subset of the range of audio frequencies is to be reproduced by the at least one speaker. The example method includes amplifying, according to the higher gain parameter, the audio signal containing no more than the subset of the range of audio frequencies to be reproduced by the at least one speaker.

Claim (Index 17):
The first zone player of  claim 1 , further comprising program instructions stored on the tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the first zone player, while operating in the paired mode, to perform functions comprising:\n receiving, from the network device over the LAN, a request for the multi-channel pairing to play back the given multi-channel audio content; and in response to receiving the request for the multi-channel pairing to play back the given multi-channel audio content, requesting the given multi-channel audio content from the given audio source, wherein the given multi-channel audio content is received from the given audio source as a result of the requesting.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29508
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16128443', '15487686', '14629937', '14256434', '13083499']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3758407011993829
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5195976496109658
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3902163960405411
- Mean Citation Score: 294.981792
- Max Citation Score: 357.90146
- Similarity Product: 296.02630581300383

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