PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15977752
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["370", "315000"]

Abstract:
Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for an enhanced timing advance scheme to support MU-MIMO in an integrated access and backhaul system. The timing advance scheme disclosed herein aligns the arrival time between backhaul links and access links to enable MU-MIMO gain at the receiver side. In the integrated access and backhaul system, which comprises distributed nodes, the timing advance offset for an access link transmission (a transmission to a node further away in hops from the core network, or to a user equipment device) can be modified by offsetting it with the timing advance of the backhaul link (e.g., from a parent node). This enables the arrival time for transmissions, both access link transmissions from the UE or child node, and backhaul link transmissions from a parent node to arrive at the same time.

Claim (Index 1):
A distributed network device, comprising:\n a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:\n receiving a first timing advance parameter associated with a wireless backhaul link; \n determining a preliminary timing advance parameter associated with an access link based on a distance of an access device associated with the access link from the distributed network device; \n determining a second timing advance parameter to apply to a first access link transmission as a function of the first timing advance parameter and the preliminary timing advance parameter; and \n configuring the first access link transmission with the second timing advance parameter, as a result of which a second access link transmission is received via the access link arriving concurrently with a backhaul link transmission received via the wireless backhaul link.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15445760', '15868758', '15399573', '12712413', '15335346']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5375153015651879
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.487679586659819
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.532531730074651
- Mean Citation Score: 191.486838
- Max Citation Score: 234.79524
- Similarity Product: 178.8849391996479

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

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