PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15967343
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["725", "110000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for providing packetized content to users via a bandwidth-optimized network. In one embodiment, legacy and IPTV streams are carried over the same switched digital infrastructure, and freely intermixed without regard to their encoding or type. A user's selection for IPTV content is transmitted to an IP proxy (such as a gateway apparatus or a headend server), then on to the switched digital server which causes provision of the requested content back to the proxy for formatting. The formatted content is then delivered to the requesting IP-capable device. The entire carrier class program stream is therefore available as IP-encapsulated content to the IP capable devices (and as legacy content to legacy devices) without any significant modifications to the network infrastructure or bandwidth penalty.

Claim (Index 31):
A server apparatus configured for operation within a switching system of a content delivery network, the server apparatus comprising:\n at least one data communication interface configured for data communication with the content delivery network; processor apparatus in data communication with the at least one data communication interface; and at least one storage device in data communication with the processor apparatus, the at least one storage device configured to store at least one computer program thereon, the at least one computer program comprising a plurality of instructions which are configured to, when executed by the processor apparatus, cause the server apparatus to:\n in a first data stream within a multi-program transport stream (MPTS), cause delivery of legacy content to at least a first user device; and \n switch-in at least one additional data stream into the MPTS to cause simultaneous delivery of packetized content to at least a second user device, the at least second user device in a same service group as the at least first user device, the packetized content encapsulated using at least a network layer protocol; \n wherein the at least one computer program comprises logic enabling the switch-in of the at least one additional data stream into the MPTS irrespective of the presence of the network layer protocol encapsulation of the packetized content.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.66265
- Patent Class: 725.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14663223', '12841906', '12764746', '13843322', '15219083']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5048954156834287
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5472426279545052
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5091301369105363
- Mean Citation Score: 377.162876
- Max Citation Score: 406.6938
- Similarity Product: 300.7005112002254

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

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