PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16165078
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["340", "665000"]

Abstract:
A mobile communication device adjusts a level of friction between a surface of the device and one or more other objects that may be in contact with the device, such as receipts, credit cards, keys, money, the user's hand or fingers, and the like. To adjust the friction, the device first determines its current environmental context, such as whether it is inside the user's pocket or lying on a table surface, for example. Then, based on that context, the device varies a coefficient of friction to increase or decrease the friction between the surface of the device and the surfaces of the other objects. Varying the friction allows a user to grip the device easier and/or reduce the chance that the other objects in contact with the device are also inadvertently removed from the storage location with the device.

Claim (Index 15):
The mobile communications device of  claim 11 , wherein the processor is further operative to execute the instructions in the memory to:\n control the haptic interface to alter the surface of the wireless communications device to increase or decrease the coefficient of friction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15513747', '15601580', '12696900', '16056004', '13112909']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6093431737498648
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5303122660657573
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6014400829814541
- Mean Citation Score: 178.818122
- Max Citation Score: 300.8807
- Similarity Product: 221.3790963628649

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