PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15774934
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["725", "139000"]

Abstract:
Playing of first and second content streams delivered to respective first and second receiving devices is achieved following a seek command to one of the devices, by a synchronization controller which receives information identifying the segment in the first stream in which the start point is located, and the duration of time between the start point and the beginning of the next segment, and transmits a command to the second receiving device identifying a segment in a second stream, at which to resume play, and a time at which to start displaying, allowing the display controlled by the second receiving device to be resynchronized with the display controlled by the first receiving device after operation of the seek command on the first device.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for synchronizing playback of output from a first content stream and a second content stream delivered to respective first and second receiving devices, the first and second content streams each being retrieved by the respective first and second receiving devices as sequences of segments identified in a manifest file available to both first and second receiving devices, each segment in the first content stream having a first predetermined length, and each segment in the second content stream having a second predetermined length, wherein a reference point common to the first and second content streams is identified in the manifest file and segments in the respective first and second content streams which correspond in time are identified with respect to the reference point according to the respective lengths of the segments in the respective first and second content streams, the method comprising:\n activating a seek command on the first receiving device, identifying a start point in the first content stream from which to resume display of content; reporting, by the first receiving device, the identified start point in the first content stream to a synchronization controller; identifying, by the synchronization controller, the segment in the first content stream in which the start point is located and a duration of time between the start point and a beginning of the next segment in the sequence of segments; and transmitting, by the synchronization controller, a command to the second receiving device identifying a corresponding segment in the second content stream at which to resume play and a time at which to start displaying the second content stream, to cause output of the second content stream to be resynchronized with output of the first content stream.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36364
- Patent Class: 725.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15163370', '15140828', '14546614', '14153185', '15866011']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4306769378185377
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4815291119945097
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4357621552361349
- Mean Citation Score: 184.243124
- Max Citation Score: 192.81555
- Similarity Product: 144.18796104191244

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