PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16035628
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["348", "014050"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for facilitating collaboration between a local user or team in a meeting space and one or more remote users outside the meeting space are provided. The virtual co-location system may include, for example, an IOT device including sensors, a microphone, a beacon light, a speaker, a user control interface (e.g., including a control input adjusted by the local user, the user control interface producing an electronic control signal representing a setting of a control device), and/or a local microprocessor for executing local collaboration software. The virtual co-location systems and methods may also or alternatively include a remote computer having a remote microprocessor for executing remote collaboration software.

Claim (Index 1):
A virtual co-location device disposed at a meeting location, comprising:\n a housing coupled to:\n a processing device; \n a transceiver device in communication with the processing device, with a remote user device, and with a web service hosting a state file; \n a beacon in communication with the processing device; \n at least one of (i) a sound sensor, (ii) a light sensor, and (iii) a proximity sensor, being disposed to acquire data from the meeting location and being in communication with the processing device; and \n a non-transitory memory device in communication with the processing device, the non-transitory memory device storing (a) data defining at least one threshold and (b) logic instructions that when executed by the processing device, result in:\n receiving, by the processing device and from the at least one of (i) the sound sensor, (ii) the light sensor, and (iii) the proximity sensor, an indication of a sensor reading for the meeting location; \n comparing, by the processing device, the sensor reading to the at least one threshold; \n generating, by the processing device and in response to the comparing, a signal indicative of a state of the meeting location; \n transmitting, by the transceiver device and to the web service, the signal indicative of the state of the meeting location, thereby causing the state file to be updated to be descriptive of the state of the meeting location; \n receiving, by the transceiver device, from the remote user device and in response to the updating of the state file, an indication of a virtual hand raise signal; and \n outputting, by the beacon and in response to the receiving of the virtual hand raise signal, at least one of a visual and an audio indication of the virtual hand raise signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9375
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15660012', '15860747', '14096918', '14136690', '14107766']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6045569036149194
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5061229999276291
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5947135132461905
- Mean Citation Score: 188.653986
- Max Citation Score: 281.9639
- Similarity Product: 208.6788007406116

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