PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16100671
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["379", "201010"]

Abstract:
A serverless Page Party (SPP) station is provided for page announcing and party line, conferencing that is configured to implement mutual provisioning to allow all SPP stations within a system to mutually maintain their configurations in runtime, and multiple master station negotiation and master failover. Plural SPP stations are connected with Ethernet cable or WIFi to a network and therefore without need for expensive and cumbersome cabling and daisy-chain configuration among stations. SPP stations route packets between each other via multicast technology and without need for a IP-PBX or other server (e,g., a SIP server) for controlling inter-station connections. In Mutual Provisioning Mode, SPP stations operate using a system configuration obtained from other SPP stations already on the network using a command channel. System configuration is maintained by a SPP station designated as a master station. Plural SPP stations can negotiate among themselves to designate a new master station.

Claim (Index 1):
An Internet Protocol (IP)-based station that provides at least one of page announcing and party line conferencing with respect to other IP-based stations, the IP-based station connected to other IP-based stations in a network that supports multicast and point-to-point communication, the IP-based station comprising:\n a network interface to connect the IP-based station to the network; a selector input configured to select from a plurality of party lines when the IP-based station is configured to transmit and receive audio in party line conferencing with other IP-based stations and transmit and a plurality of page lines when the IP-based station is configured to transmit and receive page announcements with respect to the other IP-based stations, the party lines being assigned respective party line sockets and the page lines being assigned respective page sockets in accordance with a system configuration; and a processing device that operates in a mutual provisioning mode to configure the station to provide page announcing and party line conferencing operations using voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) on the network, wherein the mutual provisioning mode allocates multicast addresses to designate at least one of respective page sockets and respective party line sockets used by the IP-based station and the other IP-based stations in the network in accordance with the system configuration, and the IP-based station, once configured, operates to listen to its configured page sockets for received audio and transmit audio on the respective page sockets when designated by the system configuration, and to participate in party line conferencing on the respective partly line sockets when designated by the system configuration; wherein, during the mutual provisioning mode., at least one of the IP-based station and the other IP-based stations is provided with the system configuration upon initialization and operates as a master station and the IP-based station and the other IP-based stations are operable to use a designated multicast address as a dedicated channel, the processing device being configured to perform at least one of sending the system configuration on the dedicated channel when the IP-based station is the master station, and receiving the system configuration via the dedicated channel from one of the other IP-based stations operating as the master station, to obviate a central point for maintenance of configurations of the IP-based station and the other IP-based stations during runtime.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68367
- Patent Class: 379.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15536464', '15916387', '15939762', '12369813', '15332699']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4674608142594224
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5578512178925195
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4764998546227321
- Mean Citation Score: 211.089824
- Max Citation Score: 440.14777
- Similarity Product: 371.21202485832686

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