PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15882631
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["381", "085000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments are provided for intelligently activating an amplifier in a playback device based on proximity detection. The playback device may be in a quasi-idle state when the playback device is not rendering media content. The quasi-idle state of the playback device may involve an amplifier in the playback device being inactive, while some other components or modules of the playback devices remain active. The playback device may include a proximity sensor configured to detect movement relative to the playback device. If movement is detected indicating that a user input to cause the playback device to render media content is anticipated, the amplifier may be pre-emptively activated such that the playback device enters an active state from the quasi-idle state. In some cases, the playback device may send a message to one or more other playback devices to cause the other playback devices to enter an active state.

Claim (Index 11):
A tangible non-transitory computer-readable media having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause a first playback device of a media playback system to perform operations comprising:\n while an amplifier of the first playback device is in an inactive state, detecting, via a network interface of the first playback device, an indication that a mobile device has entered proximity of the first playback device; responsive to detecting the indication that a mobile device has entered proximity of the first playback device, causing the amplifier of the first playback device to enter an active state such that the amplifier is configured to produce amplified audio signals; receiving an instruction to cause the first playback device to render audio content; and responsive to receiving the instruction, rendering the audio content via the amplifier.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19718
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13925367', '15338931', '14041181', '14973006', '14955832']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7290390810271817
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4744360910515536
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7035787820296189
- Mean Citation Score: 229.954148
- Max Citation Score: 266.6771
- Similarity Product: 218.39800791243908

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

Dataset: test