PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16037276
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["381", "082000"]

Abstract:
A method for operating a wireless audio playback device that has an electro-acoustic transducer and a microphone, wherein the wireless audio playback device is configured for playback of audio signals received from a plurality of digital audio sources and for synchronized audio playback with one or more other wireless audio playback devices. A particular predefined user action is detected. Based on the detection, wireless communication with another wireless audio playback device is enabled. Then an audio signal received by the device microphone is transmitted to and played by the other wireless audio playback device.

Claim (Index 9):
A method that uses first and second wireless audio playback devices that are each configured for playback of audio signals received from a plurality of digital audio sources and for synchronized audio playback with one or more other wireless audio playback devices, where each of the first and second wireless audio playback devices comprises an electro-acoustic transducer, a user interface comprising a user-operable button, a microphone that is configured to detect speech, and a wireless network interface that provides for wireless communication with another wireless audio playback device, the method comprising:\n detecting a single operation of the button of the first wireless audio playback device and in response automatically connecting the first wireless audio playback device with a particular audio source, such that the particular audio source begins playing on the electro-acoustic transducer of the first wireless audio playback device; while the first wireless audio playback device is playing the particular audio source, detecting a double operation of the button of the first wireless audio playback device, and in response stopping the play of the particular audio source and establishing a wireless local area network communication channel with the second wireless audio playback device; after establishing a wireless local area network communication channel with the second wireless audio playback device, wirelessly transmitting to the second wireless audio playback device, over the wireless local area network communication channel, speech detected by the microphone of the first wireless audio playback device; and then receiving at the first wireless audio playback device from the second wireless audio playback device over the wireless local area network communication channel, speech that was detected by the microphone of the second wireless audio playback device; and then playing the received speech using the electro-acoustic transducer of the first wireless audio playback device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88679
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15255472', '14049184', '13857475', '15812478', '15880869']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.68556972984311
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5332128743042153
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6703340442892206
- Mean Citation Score: 228.6641180000001
- Max Citation Score: 370.14722
- Similarity Product: 339.87928795645

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