PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15964132
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["463", "030000"]

Abstract:
A haptic peripheral includes a housing and a haptically-enhanced user input element. The haptically-enhanced user input element is configured to receive an input from a user, and includes a mechanical key having a keycap with a user contact surface configured to contact the user and a smart material actuator integrated onto the user contact surface of the keycap. The smart material actuator is configured to receive a control signal from a processor and is configured to deform at least a portion of the user contact surface relative to the keycap of the mechanical key in response to the control signal from the processor to thereby provide a haptic effect to a user of the haptic peripheral. The haptic peripheral may also include a braking actuator coupled to the mechanical key to hold the mechanical key in a depressed position to indicate an inactive status to a user. In addition, the haptic peripheral and the haptically-enhanced user input element may be modular.

Claim (Index 35):
A haptic peripheral comprising:\n a housing; and a haptically-enhanced user input element configured to receive an input, the haptically-enhanced user input element including\n a mechanical key having a keycap, and \n a smart material actuator integrated onto the keycap, wherein the smart material actuator is configured to receive a control signal from a processor and is configured to deform relative to the keycap of the mechanical key in response to the control signal from the processor to thereby provide a haptic effect to a user of the haptic peripheral, the haptic effect being transient and being output when the mechanical key is in a pressed down state, when the mechanical key is in a non-pressed down state, or when the mechanical key is being pressed down.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.70968
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15159258', '14951828', '15623987', '15845052', '15665891']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2928922242470065
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.609041540820505
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3245071559043564
- Mean Citation Score: 320.612516
- Max Citation Score: 563.9119999999998
- Similarity Product: 530.2633198270796

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