PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15974910
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["379", "202010"]

Abstract:
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device having a controller to retrieve from an address book a communication identifier for each of a plurality of participants, determine from the address book a conferencing type for each of the plurality of participants, and initiate according to the conference type and the communication identifier of each participant a Voice over Internet Protocol conference call directed to communication devices of the plurality of participants. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Claim (Index 1):
A method comprising:\n receiving, by a processing system including a processor of a first communication device, presence information for a plurality of target participants for engaging in a communication session, wherein the presence information is obtained by a presence system monitoring network activity generated by communication devices of the plurality of target participants; identifying, by the processing system from the presence information, a plurality of target communication devices respectively associated with the plurality of target participants, each of the plurality of target communication devices having a conferencing type comprising one of video conferencing or audio-only conferencing, wherein a first set of the target participants is associated with video conferencing and a second set of the target participants is associated with audio-only conferencing; receiving, by the processing system based on user input at the first communication device, a selection of a target conferencing type, the target conferencing type comprising one of audio-only, video-only and audio-video hybrid; and initiating, by the processing system, the communication session,\n wherein in accordance with the target conferencing type being the audio-video hybrid, the communication session is initiated with the first set of the target participants on a video channel and with the second set of the target participants on a voice channel, \n wherein in accordance with the target conferencing type being audio-only, the communication session is initiated with the first set of the target participants and with the second set of the target participants as an audio-only communication session using the voice channel, and \n wherein in accordance with the target conferencing type being video-only, the communication session is initiated with only the first set of the target participants as a video-only communication session using the video channel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83673
- Patent Class: 379.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12275694', '15436979', '12942499', '15710391', '15140737']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4609619341642724
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.472306923705409
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4620964331183861
- Mean Citation Score: 177.30621399999995
- Max Citation Score: 223.39604
- Similarity Product: 195.6160874341011

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