PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15766723
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["725", "087000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to a client and method for playing a sequence of video streams, and corresponding server and computer program product. The client comprises: —a receiver arranged to receive from a server a data object defining a network address for each of a number of different video streams, a playing order and timing information; and —a processor arranged to, on the basis of the timing information and the playing order: o select the current video stream to be played; and o determine the current playback position within said current video stream, wherein the receiver is arranged to request video streams on the basis of the network addresses, and the processor is arranged to play video streams according to the playing order, starting from the selected current video stream at the determined current playback position, and to update the data object while playing video streams.

Claim (Index 12):
Method of playing a sequence of video streams by a client, comprising the steps of:\n a) receiving by the client from a server a data object defining the network address of each of a number of video streams, the playing order of said number of video streams and server side timing information; b) requesting by the client of video streams on the basis of the network addresses of different video streams; c) on the basis of the server side timing information and the playing order defined in the data object, selecting by the client the current video stream to be played from said number of video streams and determining the current playback position within said current video stream; d) playing by the client said selected current video stream starting from the determined current playback position; and e) playing by the client the next video stream according to the order defined in the data object, wherein step e) is repeated after playing of each video stream, wherein the client updates the data object while playing the video streams upon receiving an updated data object.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35821
- Patent Class: 725.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14730191', '13823484', '14285740', '13529130', '15637122']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4424093780348931
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4877728746921998
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4469457277006238
- Mean Citation Score: 198.057498
- Max Citation Score: 201.65721
- Similarity Product: 140.6194823415506

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test