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 7):
The first playback device of  claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:\n while the amplifier of the first playback device is the active state, detecting, via the network interface, an indication that the mobile device has left proximity of the first playback device; if the first playback device is not playing audio content, responsively, causing the amplifier of the first playback device to enter the inactive state; and if the first playback device is playing audio content, causing the amplifier of the first playback device to remain in the active state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19718
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13925367', '15338931', '14041181', '14973006', '14955832']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7509053117764363
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4830662800545057
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7241214086042432
- Mean Citation Score: 229.954148
- Max Citation Score: 266.6771
- Similarity Product: 197.6914819860816

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