PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16221749
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["370", "315000"]

Abstract:
[Problem] To provide an audio communication system wherein a relaying device is connected to terminal devices, which are communication devices, via a communication network and wherein the relaying device is caused to manage the group of the terminal devices. [Solution] An audio communication system comprises: a master relaying device; one or more slave relaying devices connected to the master relaying device via a communication network; and one or more terminal devices connected to each relaying device via a communication network. Each slave relaying device transfers, to the master relaying device, audio signals received from the terminal device in charge of the slave relaying device. The master relaying device transfers the audio signals, which were received from each slave relaying device, to the slave relaying devices other than that slave relaying device.

Claim (Index 6):
A method for installing a plurality of relaying devices controlling a group communication,\n each of the plurality of relaying devices comprising a network communication unit connected to a communication network and communicating with a plurality of terminal devices and other relaying devices over the communication network and a table for storing a transfer destination of an audio signal of the group communication, the group communication being communication with terminal devices belonging to a group, comprising: setting up one of the plurality of relaying devices as a master relaying device by storing master-subordinate terminal devices and a slave relaying device as the transfer destination in the table, master-subordinate terminal devices being both belonging to the group and subordinate to the master relaying device, the slave relaying device being other of the plurality of relaying devices and communicating slave-subordinate terminal devices, the slave-subordinate terminal devices being both belonging to the group and subordinate to the slave relaying device; setting up other of the plurality of relaying devices as the slave relaying device by storing the slave-subordinate terminal devices and the master relaying device as the transfer destination in the table; making the master relaying device transfer an audio signal of the group communication received from one of the master-subordinate terminal devices to the other of the master-subordinate terminal devices and to the slave relaying device, and also transfer an audio signal of the group communication received from the slave relaying device to the other slave relaying device and to all the master-subordinate terminal devices; making the slave relaying device transfer an audio signal of the group communication received from one of the slave-subordinate terminal devices to the other of the slave-subordinate terminal devices and to the master relaying device, and also transfer an audio signal received from the master relaying device to all the slave-subordinate terminal devices.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.79245
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15123913', '15032408', '15033197', '15123873', '15033184']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4962640891732007
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5580500582024719
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5024426860761279
- Mean Citation Score: 258.13329600000003
- Max Citation Score: 432.30206
- Similarity Product: 334.0789472260737

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

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