PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16029410
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["348", "705000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments described herein enable a switching device to automatically select AV port(s) coupled to electronic device(s) that a user would like to use to watch and/or listen to content. The AV port(s) may be automatically selected based on receiving a command, determining that a particular remote control device is being used, and/or determining that a particular piece of content has been selected. Upon detection of such events, a source device for providing content is identified from among a plurality of source devices. Thereafter, an AV port from among a plurality of AV ports to which the identified source device is connected is identified. The identified AV port is then selected so that the identified source device becomes connected to an AV port to which a sink device is connected. In this way, the switching device can provide content from the identified source device to the sink device for presentation thereby.

Claim (Index 1):
A method performed by a switching device comprising a plurality of audio/video (AV) ports and a switch circuit that is operable to selectively connect any one of a plurality of source devices, each of which is connected to a corresponding one of the plurality of AV ports, to a sink device that is connected to another one of the plurality of AV ports, the method comprising:\n detecting, by a control signal detector of the switching device, which is operable to sniff wireless control signals that have been sent from different remote control devices to different source devices, that a wireless control signal has been sent from a remote control device to a source device of the plurality of source devices so that the remote control device can wirelessly control the source device; determining an identifier that identifies the source device to which the control signal was sent; identifying a first AV port from among the plurality of AV ports to which the identified source device is connected using a data structure that comprises a device-to-port mapping that identifies the first AV port to which the identified source device is connected based on the determined identifier; and automatically connecting the first AV port to the AV port to which the sink device is connected so that content can be provided from the identified source device to the sink device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23684
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14945175', '16029412', '15727340', '15892215', '15641968']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6545247057752813
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.535874465016032
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6426596816993564
- Mean Citation Score: 294.3140580000001
- Max Citation Score: 381.3612
- Similarity Product: 367.6538769857884

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

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