PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16222497
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "329000"]

Abstract:
Slotted Aloha-NOMA (SAN) protocol is an uncoordinated, non-orthogonal, random access protocol that exploits the simplicity of SA (Slotted Aloha) and the superior throughput of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and its ability to resolve collisions via use of successive interference cancellation (SIC) receiver. In SAN protocol, the SIC receiver at the IoT gateway adaptively learns the number of active devices (which is not known a priori) using multiple hypothesis testing in order to successfully distinguish between signals transmitted from different IoT devices.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication over a transmission medium, the method comprising:\n broadcasting a notification signal, from an Internet of Things (IoT) gateway, to notify a plurality of IoT devices that the IoT gateway is available to receive transmission packets over the transmission medium; transmitting a training sequence over the transmission medium from each active IoT device of the plurality of devices in response to the notification signal; receiving a superposed signal at the IoT gateway, wherein the superposed signal comprises each of the training sequences transmitted from each active IoT device; determining, by the IoT gateway, a number of active IoT devices based upon the received superposed signal; if the number of active IoT devices is less than or equal to a maximum number of optimum power levels of a Successive Interference Cancellation (SIC) receiver of the IoT gateway, setting a number of optimum power levels of the SIC receiver to be equal to the number of active IoT devices; and broadcasting, by the IoT gateway, the number of optimum power levels of the SIC receiver to the active IoT devices.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16104412', '12547092', '16093777', '14760342', '15444869']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4502420297436505
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5679064803761761
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4620084748069031
- Mean Citation Score: 192.25765
- Max Citation Score: 429.93173
- Similarity Product: 423.1723020819657

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

Dataset: test