PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16154201
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["381", "314000"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems are described for transferring programming information to a hearing instrument. Such programming information may include hearing loss compensation parameters and/or other information pertaining to device operation. In one embodiment, each of a pair of hearing instruments prescribed and configured for a particular hearing loss contains the necessary information for operation on either the left or right ear. The data from one hearing instrument may then be transferred to the other hearing instrument by means of wireless communication. In other embodiments, programming information is transferred wirelessly by an external device connected to a database.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for a hearing instrument, the apparatus comprising:\n processing circuitry for processing an input signal from a microphone into an output signal for driving a speaker; wherein the processing circuitry is configured to: operate as a member of a binaural pair of hearing instruments on a first side of a patient using a first set of programming parameters or on a second side of the patient using a second set of programming parameters; store programming information relating to the first and second sets of programming parameters, wherein the programming information includes a representation of the patient's audiogram on the first and second sides with each of the audiograms being represented by coefficients of a polynomial function; and, operate using either the first set of programming parameters or the second set of programming properties based upon a signal input to the processing circuitry.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.66129
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14854730', '13779477', '14940562', '13368760', '13915391']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6169862460831823
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5232484503524645
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6076124665101106
- Mean Citation Score: 181.116838
- Max Citation Score: 326.39886
- Similarity Product: 287.6100542834544

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

Dataset: test