PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15952163
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "332000"]

Abstract:
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for serving AP selection in a network having multiple access points (APs). In one aspect, a serving AP selection unit can steer a device (such as a client station, STA, or a child AP) based on a quality of service profile (such as a capacity requirement or a delay requirement) of the device. The device may be initially associated with a first AP (as the current serving AP) in the network. The serving AP selection unit may select a second AP as a new serving AP for the device, and cause the device to associate with the second AP rather than the first AP. The selection of a serving AP may take into account delay or hop count in addition to path capacities for various paths in the network.

Claim (Index 12):
The first AP of  claim 11 , wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the first AP to:\n estimate link capacities for a plurality of links in the candidate path; estimate a lower bound of the end-to-end path capacity based, at least in part, the plurality of links being utilized sequentially during a plurality of contention free periods; estimate an upper bound of the end-to-end path capacity based, at least in part, non-overlapping ones of the plurality of links being utilized concurrently during the plurality of contention free periods; and estimate the end-to-end path capacity based, at least in part, on the lower bound and the upper bound of the end-to-end path capacity.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06329
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11537728', '14855079', '15466650', '14035991', '14095406']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5653648472024357
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.48857628482171
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5576859909643632
- Mean Citation Score: 194.56690200000003
- Max Citation Score: 205.44545
- Similarity Product: 144.3211642510116

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

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