PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16068104
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["370", "324000"]

Abstract:
The cross-layer time synchronization method is a cross-layer synchronization approach that utilizes a timing recovery module at a physical layer (PHY), derives the information about the clock frequency offset from the timestamp-embedded message, and exploits it for synchronization at the higher layers. This approach either results in minimizing the cost of synchronization resulting in energy efficiency or improving the accuracy of the clock parameters' estimates by exploiting the PHY information. Some applications of this cross-layer technique include, but are not limited to, energy efficient wireless networks, cooperative networks or distributed MIMO networks.

Claim (Index 1):
A cross-layer time synchronization method, comprising the steps of:\n obtaining information about a clock frequency offset from a timestamp-embedded message provided by a physical layer (PHY) timing recovery module; and synchronizing clock time of layers above the PHY using the information provided by the PHY timing recovery module; whereby multiple timing packet exchanges are avoided.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.4507
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15739716', '11444735', '12586321', '14220242', '13257920']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4581926804496756
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4767519162615236
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4600486040308604
- Mean Citation Score: 127.25411799999998
- Max Citation Score: 138.57088000000002
- Similarity Product: 96.80121366539

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

Dataset: test