PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15949735
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["709", "224000"]

Abstract:
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, upon receiving a request for media content, a first signal quality may be determined, a first quality level may be selected based on the first signal quality, and segments of the first quality level may be retrieved, stored in a buffer, and played from the buffer. When the buffer is sufficiently occupied first inferior segments stored in the buffer may be replaced by determining a second signal quality selecting a second quality level based on the second signal quality, identifying the first inferior segment based on the second quality level, and replacing the first inferior segment with a first replacement segment, the first replacement segment corresponding to the first inferior segment. These processes may be performed iteratively. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Claim (Index 1):
A method comprising:\n receiving, by a processing system including a processor, a request for media content, wherein the media content is divided into segments, with each segment being available in a plurality of quality levels; determining, by the processing system, a first signal quality of a wireless network; selecting, by the processing system, a first quality level of the plurality of quality levels based on the first signal quality; retrieving, by the processing system, at least some of the segments of the first quality level; storing, by the processing system, the at least some of the segments in a buffer; playing, by the processing system, the at least some of the segments from the buffer, while retrieving additional segments, storing the additional segments in the buffer, and deleting segments that have been played from the buffer; responsive to an occupancy of the buffer satisfying a first threshold, halting the retrieving the additional segments and replacing a first inferior segment of the segments stored in the buffer with a first replacement segment of a higher quality level, wherein the replacing the first inferior segment comprises:\n determining, by the processing system, a second signal quality of the wireless network experienced during retrieval of a most recent one of the segments, \n selecting, by the processing system, a second quality level of the plurality of quality levels based on the second signal quality, \n identifying, by the processing system, the first inferior segment based on the second quality level, \n retrieving, by the processing system, the first replacement segment of the second quality level, the first replacement segment corresponding to the first inferior segment, and \n replacing, by the processing system, the first inferior segment with the first replacement segment; \n monitoring, by the processing system, the occupancy of the buffer; and responsive to the first threshold changing from being satisfied to not being satisfied resuming the retrieving the additional segments.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44068
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14868695', '14946981', '13915531', '14860904', '15365886']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2132765119077727
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4889783548320471
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2408466962002001
- Mean Citation Score: 156.56991000000005
- Max Citation Score: 160.78499
- Similarity Product: 103.57236645351227

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

Dataset: test