PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15967345
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["084", "645000"]

Abstract:
A system and method eliminate the drag associated with CPU drag on experienced by combine audio streams from multiple sources. The embodiments receive audio signals from two separate audio sources and apply a MIDI based timing signature to the audio signals. The audio signals are synchronized according to the MTC signature signal and combined, when synchronized, at a summing module for output as a combined audio stream. Some embodiments include monitoring for and publishing a start/stop command signal to users in the collaboration to help synchronize audio signals from the different users.

Claim (Index 10):
A method of providing collaborative input of music streams, comprising:\n receiving at a first USB audio input interface, a first audio signal from a first digital audio workstation, receiving at a second USB audio input interface, a second audio signal from a second digital audio workstation, receiving a user input at a controller to synchronize the first audio signal with the second audio signal; generating, in response to the received user input at the controller, a musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) time code (MTC) timing signature signal;\n broadcasting the MTC timing signature signal simultaneously to the first USB audio input interface and to the second USB audio input interface; \n monitoring for a synchronization command registered by the first digital audio workstation; \n publishing the synchronization command from the first digital audio workstation to the second digital audio workstation; \n receiving a start/stop command from the second digital workstation in response to receiving the synchronization command; \n starting/stopping receipt of the second audio signal from the second digital audio workstation; \n combining the first audio signal with the second audio signal in synchronization according to the MTC timing signature signal and the starting/stopping receipt of the second audio signal; and \n outputting the combined and synchronized first audio signal and second audio signal as a combined audio stream.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.63333
- Patent Class: 84.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15588413', '13718298', '12042181', '12042170', '14804569']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5899972388050237
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5377877611449988
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5847762910390213
- Mean Citation Score: 213.47231800000003
- Max Citation Score: 402.6881
- Similarity Product: 382.1923388677836

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