Audible acoustic performance tool

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12277170-B2
Application number	US-202318471470-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 21, 2023
Priority date	Sep 5, 2017
Publication date	Apr 15, 2025
Grant date	Apr 15, 2025

Abstract

In an aspect, provided are computer-readable media 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. An apparatus comprising:
one or more processors; and
memory storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to:
receive 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;

retrieve, 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
transmit the one or more media files to the client computing device for playback.

2. The apparatus 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, the structural member, the ceiling support, the ceiling, the insulation member, or the 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 second 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 apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor-executable instructions further cause the apparatus to perform 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 apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more characteristics further comprise:
a classification or result; or
a classification range or a result range.

5. An apparatus comprising:
one or more processors; and
memory storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to:
present 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;

receive 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, receive 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

cause playback of the one or more media files.

6. The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the processor-executable instructions further cause the apparatus to perform the audio tests, wherein the audio tests are associated with the two or more construction assemblies.

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

8. The apparatus 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, the structural member, the ceiling support, the ceiling, the insulation member, or the 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 second 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. An apparatus comprising:
one or more processors; and
memory storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to:
receive, 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
send, based on the resource identifier, the acoustic test recording for playback.

10. The apparatus 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 apparatus 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 computing device, and wherein the processor-executable instructions that cause the apparatus to send, based on the resource identifier, the acoustic test recording for playback further cause the apparatus to send, to the computing device, the acoustic test recording for playback at the computing device.

12. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the acoustic test recording comprises a recording of a noise test, wherein the noise test is associated with

Assignees

• Columbia Insurance Co

Inventors

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

Classifications

• G06F16/68 Primary

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

• G06F16/164

  File meta data generation · CPC title

• G06N5/04

  Inference or reasoning models · CPC title

• G06N20/00

  Machine learning · CPC title

• G06F16/60 Primary

  of audio data · CPC title