Audible acoustic performance tool

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11803587-B2
Application number	US-202217898857-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 30, 2022
Priority date	Sep 5, 2017
Publication date	Oct 31, 2023
Grant date	Oct 31, 2023

Abstract

In an aspect, provided are methods, systems, and apparatuses comprising receiving a query specifying one or more materials of a floor/ceiling assembly and/or a classification or result, determining one or more media files responsive to the query, and providing the one or more media files for playback.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving a query from a client computing device,
wherein the client computing device is configured to present a user interface that enables comparison of audio associated with two or more construction assemblies;
wherein the user interface comprises an option to select from the two or more construction assemblies;
wherein each construction assembly of the two or more construction assemblies comprises a floor covering, a padding, an underlayment, a subfloor, a structural member, a ceiling support, a ceiling, or an insulation member, and
wherein the query is representative of a selection of a construction assembly of the two or more construction assemblies made by a user;

retrieving, based on the selected construction assembly, one or more media files that are associated with and representative of a group of construction assemblies comprising one or more characteristics, wherein the selected construction assembly comprises at least one characteristic that is similar to the one or more characteristics; and
transmitting the one or more media files to the client computing device for playback.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein a first construction assembly of the two or more construction assemblies comprises a concrete slab, wherein a second construction assembly of the two or more construction assemblies comprises at least one of: a floor covering disposed on a subfloor lacking an insulation member, a floor covering comprising an underlayment disposed between the floor covering and the subfloor, the subfloor, a structural member, a ceiling support, a ceiling, an insulation member, or a padding, wherein the floor covering comprises at least one of: a carpet covering, a resilient/vinyl covering, a hardwood covering, an engineered hardwood covering, or a tile covering, wherein the underlayment comprises at least one of:
rebond, frothed foam, waffle rubber, urethane foam, bonded urethane, flat rubber, fiber cushion, slab rubber, fiber, or cork, wherein the subfloor comprises at least one of: hardboard, particle board, oriented strand board (OSB), plywood, or concrete, wherein the structural member comprises a concrete slab, and wherein the insulation member comprises at least one of: fiberglass, mineral wool, plastic fibers, natural fibers, foam board, foam, or cellulose.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: performing a plurality of audio tests associated with the two or more construction assemblies, wherein the one or more media files are associated with the plurality of audio tests, and wherein the one or more characteristics comprise a construction assembly design or a construction assembly sound performance.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more characteristics further comprise:
a classification or result; or
a classification range or a result range.

5. A method comprising:
presenting a user interface that is configured to enable comparison of audio associated with two or more construction assemblies;
wherein the user interface is configured to enable a user to select from the two or more construction assemblies, and
wherein each construction assembly of the two or more construction assemblies comprises a floor covering, a padding, an underlayment, a subfloor, a structural member, a ceiling support, a ceiling, or an insulation member;

receiving a query that is representative of a selection of a construction assembly of the two or more construction assemblies made by the user via the user interface;
responsive to receiving the query and based on the selected construction assembly, receiving, one or more media files that are associated with and representative of a group of construction assemblies comprising one or more characteristics, wherein the selected construction assembly comprises at least one characteristic that is similar to the one or more characteristics, and
wherein the one or more media files comprise sound files of audio tests stored in a database;
and

causing playback of the one or more media files.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising: performing the audio tests, wherein the audio tests are associated with the two or more construction assemblies.

7. The method of claim 5 , wherein the one or more media files each comprise a recording of one of the audio tests.

8. The method of claim 5 , wherein a first construction assembly of the two or more construction assemblies comprises a concrete slab, wherein a second construction assembly of the two or more construction assemblies comprises at least one of: a floor covering disposed on a subfloor lacking an insulation member, a floor covering comprising an underlayment disposed between the floor covering and the subfloor, the subfloor, a structural member, a ceiling support, a ceiling, an insulation member, or a padding, wherein the floor covering comprises at least one of: a carpet covering, a resilient/vinyl covering, a hardwood covering, an engineered hardwood covering, or a tile covering, wherein the underlayment comprises at least one of:
rebond, frothed foam, waffle rubber, urethane foam, bonded urethane, flat rubber, fiber cushion, slab rubber, fiber, or cork, wherein the subfloor comprises at least one of: hardboard, particle board, oriented strand board (OSB), plywood, or concrete, wherein the structural member comprises a concrete slab, wherein the insulation member comprises at least one of: fiberglass, mineral wool, plastic fibers, natural fibers, foam board, foam, or cellulose, and wherein the one or more characteristics comprise a construction assembly design or a construction assembly sound performance.

9. A method comprising:
receiving, by a computing device, based on a user selection of one or more floor coverings associated with a ceiling assembly, a resource identifier associated with an acoustic test recording, wherein the acoustic test recording is associated with the one or more floor coverings and the ceiling assembly; and
sending, based on the resource identifier, the acoustic test recording for playback.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the one or more floor coverings comprise a carpet covering, a resilient/vinyl covering, a hardwood covering, an engineered hardwood covering, or a tile covering, and wherein the ceiling assembly comprises one or more of: a joist, a truss, a concrete slab, a ceiling support, drywall, plaster, tile, fiberglass, mineral wool, plastic fibers, natural fibers, foam board, foam, or cellulose.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the user selection comprises a selection of an interface element of a user interface output via a web browser executing on a second computing device, and wherein sending, based on the resource identifier, the acoustic test recording for playback comprises sending, to the second computing device, the acoustic test recording for playback at the second computing device.

12. The method of claim 9 , wherein the acoustic test recording comprises a recording of a noise test, wherein the noise test is associated with the one or more floor coverings and the ceiling assembly, and wherein the resource identifier comprises one or more of a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), a web address, or a hyperlink.

13. A method comprising:
receiving, via a user interface, a selection of a first element of the user interface, wherein the first element is associated with one or more floor coverings associated with a ceiling assembly;
determining, based on the selection, a resource identifier associated with an acoustic test recording, wherein the acoustic test recording is associated with the one or more floor coverings and the ceiling assembly; and
causing,

Assignees

• Columbia Insurance Co

Inventors

• Woodall Joseph M
• Brumbelow Julie B
• Morton Barrett R
• Buttenhoff Alan
• Haywood Robert Blane
• Pearson David

Classifications

• G06F16/60 Primary

  of audio data · CPC title

• G06F16/164

  File meta data generation · CPC title

• G06F16/68 Primary

  Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually · CPC title

• G06N5/04

  Inference or reasoning models · CPC title

• G06N20/00

  Machine learning · CPC title