PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16185712
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["725", "032000"]

Abstract:
An intelligent audio/video source switcher and controller that automatically switches the input source based on a change in an incoming audio/video signal (for example, upon detection of a commercial break), devices that connect to the source switcher and controller, and methods for using the same, are presented. The switcher allows playback of media stored in memory of the switcher or streamed to the switcher via a network connection, thereby allowing commercial breaks in a television broadcast to be replaced with alternate content, such as alternate advertising or entertainment. In one or more embodiments, the apparatus of the present invention includes a control server configured to send commands to the switcher via a network to instruct the switcher to switch audio/video inputs, play back alternate media, or download media and/or software updates.

Claim (Index 15):
An audio/video source switcher comprising:\n a microprocessor; a memory; computer-readable instructions stored in the memory and executing on the microprocessor; a plurality of audio/video source inputs; an audio/video output; and one or more computer network interfaces; wherein the switcher is configured to receive a control frame comprising a control instruction from a control server via a computer network, and in response to the control instruction, to enter one of an active mode, update mode, or passive mode in accordance with the control instruction; wherein the active mode disconnects a first audio/video source input from the audio/video output and connects a second audio/video source input to the audio/video output; wherein the update mode obtains audio/video data and updated computer-readable instructions from the control server via the computer network and stores the audio/video data and updated computer-readable instructions in the memory of the switcher; and wherein the passive mode listens for an audio streaming request received via the computer network from a mobile device, and in response to the audio streaming request, to stream an audio component of an audio/video signal emitted from the audio/video output to one or more mobile devices via the computer network.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68605
- Patent Class: 725.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15465011', '11087629', '14247068', '11897805', '12015460']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4320670951981425
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5334467772828315
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4422050634066115
- Mean Citation Score: 223.01868
- Max Citation Score: 371.05502
- Similarity Product: 322.01229403406865

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