PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15760972
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["340", "012240"]

Abstract:
A system controls assistive technologies with an assistive tool for users with movement and/or communication disorders. The system includes an electronic communication interface, a biometric sensor, a calibration module and a processing unit. The interface presents users with stimuli associated with commands and/or information that the user might select. The sensor detects the user's biometric activity and generates a biometric electrical signal. During initial calibration, the calibration module records signal characteristics associated with a biometric electrical signal detected with voluntary biometric activity. The processing unit recognizes, based on the biometric electrical signal and the signal characteristics, the user's voluntary biometric activity and commands and/or information the user wants to select. The processing unit provides control signals to the interface and the assistive tool, based on the user's selection preferences. The interface presents stimuli based on the presentation control signal, if present, or presents a scan of stimuli.

Claim (Index 44):
Method for controlling assistive technologies, provided with at least one assistive tool, for users suffering from movement and/or communication disorders, the method comprising:\n recording, by a calibration module, in an initial calibration step, one or more signal characteristics associated with a biometric electrical signal detected in a presence of at least one respective voluntary biometric activity of a user, which is conventionally considered as indicative of the user's will to select a command and/or a piece of information; presenting the user, by an electronic communication interface, with a plurality of sensory stimuli, each of the stimuli associated with a command and/or a piece of information which the user may want to select and/or provide; detecting at least one biometric activity of the user, by at least one biometric sensor, during presentation of the sensory stimuli, and generating a respective biometric electrical signal representative of the biometric activity detected; comparing, by a processing unit, the biometric electrical signal detected and said one or more signal characteristics recorded in the calibration module; recognizing, by the processing unit, the biometric activity performed by the user and the related will to select, by the user, based on said comparison; providing, by the processing unit, control signals to the electronic communication interface and to the assistive tool, based on recognition of the user's will to select, wherein said control signals comprise: at least one sensory stimuli presentation control signal, adapted to manage said presentation based on the user's will; at least one command signal to the assistive tool, based on a command and/or a piece of information, among those presented to the user, selected by the user and recognized by the processing unit; wherein said presentation step comprises presenting the sensory stimuli based on the at least one presentation control signal, if present, and presenting an automatic and predefined sequence of sensory stimuli, in an absence of the presentation control signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51515
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14356071', '14936668', '15134706', '10012012', '14752148']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6511706283831771
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4649650278730522
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6325500683321647
- Mean Citation Score: 106.721477
- Max Citation Score: 114.85021
- Similarity Product: 84.48911236165404

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

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