PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15933927
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["381", "314000"]

Abstract:
A sound processing method for a hearing aid in embodiments of the present invention may have one of more of the following steps: (a) receiving a command from a user to begin an upload and/or download of a file, (b) initiating communications to commence the upload and/or download of the file, (c) selecting the file to upload and/or download to a memory on the hearing aid, (d) downloading and/or uploading the file into or out of the memory, (e) executing the file loaded into memory, (f) asking the user if they wish to download and/or upload another file to/from the memory, and (g) continuing normal hearing aid operations if the user does not wish to execute the file in the memory.

Claim (Index 1):
A hearing aid, comprising:\n a hearing aid housing; a processor disposed within the hearing aid housing for processing sound signals based on settings to compensate for hearing loss of an individual according to a hearing loss profile; at least one microphone for receiving sound signals to be processed, the at least one microphone operatively connected to the processor; at least one speaker for outputting sound signals to a user after processing of the sound signals; a memory disposed within the hearing aid housing and operatively connected to the processor; wherein the hearing aid is configured to allow the individual to store files in the memory.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10294
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12374490', '13009751', '15502130', '12861486', '12976985']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6590702022629095
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4849675276144266
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6416599347980612
- Mean Citation Score: 209.671914
- Max Citation Score: 214.1075
- Similarity Product: 172.59676718249915

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

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