PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16181120
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["381", "073100"]

Abstract:
A sound masking system for shaping the ambient noise level in a physical environment. The sound masking system comprises a networked and distributed system having a number of master units coupled together and to a control unit. One or more of the master units may include satellite sound masking units which function to reproduce the sound masking signal generated by the master sound masking unit. Each of the master units is addressable over the network by the control unit enabling the control unit to program the contour, spectral band, and gain characteristics of the sound masking output signal. The system may also include a remote control unit which provides the capability to tune and adjust each master sound masking unit in situ without requiring physical access through the ceiling installation.

Claim (Index 1):
A sound masking system for controlling the ambient noise level in a physical environment, said sound masking system comprising:\n (a) a communication network spanning at least a portion of said physical environment; (b) a plurality of sound masking units, some of said sound masking units including a sound masking component for generating a sound masking output signal and said sound masking units including a communication interface for coupling said sound masking units to said communication network for receiving control signals over said communication network; (c) a control unit, said control unit having a communication interface for coupling said control unit to said communication network for transmitting control signals over said communication network to said sound masking units, and said control signals including signals for selectively controlling the operation of said sound masking units.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.95714
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15060433', '13890824', '09791802', '10646734', '12292463']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7421867492193096
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5258282389016525
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7205508981875439
- Mean Citation Score: 336.13985
- Max Citation Score: 359.55807000000016
- Similarity Product: 352.5807144164659

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

Dataset: test