PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15967343
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["725", "110000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for providing packetized content to users via a bandwidth-optimized network. In one embodiment, legacy and IPTV streams are carried over the same switched digital infrastructure, and freely intermixed without regard to their encoding or type. A user's selection for IPTV content is transmitted to an IP proxy (such as a gateway apparatus or a headend server), then on to the switched digital server which causes provision of the requested content back to the proxy for formatting. The formatted content is then delivered to the requesting IP-capable device. The entire carrier class program stream is therefore available as IP-encapsulated content to the IP capable devices (and as legacy content to legacy devices) without any significant modifications to the network infrastructure or bandwidth penalty.

Claim (Index 22):
A method of operating a content distribution network to deliver both Internet Protocol (IP) encoded content data and non-IP encoded content data via a digital content delivery system, the method comprising:\n causing, via a computerized network entity, delivery in a first transport stream of non-IP encoded digital content accessible by at least one non-IP enabled device destination; and causing, via the computerized network entity, concurrent delivery in the first transport stream of IP-encoded digital content data associated with at least one IP enabled device destination, each of the at least one non-IP enabled device destination and the at least one IP enabled device destination associated with a first service group of the content distribution network; wherein a scheduling or allocation of the non-IP encoded digital content and the IP-encoded digital content within the first transport stream is performed without regard to IP encoding.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.66265
- Patent Class: 725.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14663223', '12841906', '12764746', '13843322', '15219083']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5047882017477141
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5473971295672041
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5090490945296631
- Mean Citation Score: 377.162876
- Max Citation Score: 406.6938
- Similarity Product: 303.0464184410334

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

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