PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16416180
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["725", "031000"]

Abstract:
A method and system for micro-cloud computing is described. An application serving node, which is a specifically configured piece of customer premises equipment such as a set-top box, is the server for a micro-cloud network. Various user devices that form part of the micro-cloud network, such as television sets and smart phones, communicate with the application serving node. The application serving node is configured with software that allows various heterogeneous types of data to be obtained and streamed to the user devices in multiple ways. The application serving node performs much of the processing necessary for such content streaming itself and thus represents an edge-based network architecture.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of obtaining television content, the method comprising:\n providing a first serving node located at premises of a first plurality of user devices registered to said first serving node, said first serving node comprising a plurality of television tuners; receiving, at said first serving node, a request for a channel from a registered user device of said first plurality of user devices; when any of said plurality of television tuners at said first serving node are receiving said requested channel, storing, at said first serving node, television content associated with said requested channel in blocks for transmission to said requesting user device; and when said plurality of television tuners at said first serving node are not receiving said requested channel:\n broadcasting, by said first serving node, a request for said requested channel; \n receiving, by said first serving node from a second serving node, a transcoded and transrated video stream corresponding to said requested channel; and \n providing, by said first serving node to said requesting user device, said transcoded and transrated video stream corresponding to said requested channel, \n wherein said first serving node transcodes and transrates, for said requesting user device, said video stream corresponding to said requested channel when said first serving node has available bandwidth to transcode and transrate said video stream corresponding to said requested channel, and \n wherein said second serving node transcodes and transrates, for said requesting user device, said video stream corresponding to said requested channel when said first serving node does not have available bandwidth to transcode and transrate said video stream corresponding to said requested channel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68116
- Patent Class: 725.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13466893', '13466898', '13466859', '13466854', '14455475']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5853337246695517
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5698454195873094
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5837848941613275
- Mean Citation Score: 454.6262860000001
- Max Citation Score: 516.59424
- Similarity Product: 462.6431217436982

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

Dataset: test