PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16174245
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["381", "082000"]

Abstract:
Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to control audio playback devices are disclosed. An example first playback device includes a speaker driver, a processor, and a computer readable medium including a set of instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the first playback device to implement a method. The example method includes receiving, from a first audio information source, first audio information. The example method includes playing back the first audio information. The example method includes receiving, from a second audio information source, (i) a first message, and (ii) second audio information. Based on the received first message, the example method includes (i) determining that the first playback device and a second playback device are to playback the second audio information; (ii) stopping play back of the first audio information; (iii) playing back, via the speaker driver, the second audio information; and (iv) sending the second audio information to the second playback device.

Claim (Index 1):
A playback device comprising:\n a speaker driver; one or more processors; and tangible, non-transitory computer readable memory comprising instructions stored therein, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the playback device to perform a method comprising: receiving from a first audio information source, first audio information; playing back, via the speaker driver, the first audio information; receiving from a second audio information source, second audio information; determining the second audio information source includes a display device; and after determining the second audio information source includes the display device: (i) determining that the playback device is configured to play back the second audio information; (ii) stopping play back of the first audio information; and (iii) playing back, via the speaker driver, the second audio information.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.03175
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14570869', '15489918', '13274059', '15098592', '16102554']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6773216291971392
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5353134346750067
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6631208097449259
- Mean Citation Score: 247.426838
- Max Citation Score: 293.54608
- Similarity Product: 260.9573906542301

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