PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15972476
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["700", "094000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments described herein provide for detecting presence of an object in proximity to a playback device and responsively performing one or more operations. In an example implementation, a playback device detects, via a proximity detector of the playback device, presence of an object in proximity to the playback device. In response to detecting the presence of the object, the playback device performs one or more operations.

Claim (Index 10):
A method to be performed by a playback device comprising:\n a housing configured to be supported by a substantially horizontal surface; a network interface carried by the housing; a screen-less capacitive touch-control interface carried on an exterior surface of the housing; a proximity sensor carried on the exterior surface of the housing and calibrated to detect presence of a hand at a greater range than a capacitive range of the screen-less capacitive touch-control interface; one or more amplifiers carried by the housing, the amplifier configured to drive one or more speakers; one or more processors carried by the housing; the method comprising:\n playing back audio content via the one or more amplifiers and the one or more speakers; \n while the playback device is playing back the audio content, detecting, via the proximity sensor, presence of a hand in proximity to the playback device; and \n in response to detecting the presence of the hand in proximity to the playback device, pausing the playing back of audio content.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14706
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14939958', '15072551', '15872500', '13536250', '15946515']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3786412341804278
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.454124662959454
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3861895770583304
- Mean Citation Score: 197.505082
- Max Citation Score: 199.30698
- Similarity Product: 157.9142912534809

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

Dataset: test