PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16316559
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["455", "456100"]

Abstract:
This disclosure provides methods and systems for locating wireless mobile devices in an area, for example, using an unmanned aerial vehicle. An unmanned aerial vehicle may receive a wireless signal with identification information from a mobile device. The unmanned aerial vehicle may fly in wireless communication range with the mobile device; measuring, representative parameters related to the received wireless signal and associating the value of measured representative parameters with the mobile device identification and with the location of the unmanned aerial vehicle at the time the wireless signal was received and estimating, the location of the mobile device in the area based on the value of measured representative parameters and the location of the unmanned aerial vehicle at the time it received the wireless signal. The measurement of the representative parameters may be time-stamped and the location of the unmanned aerial vehicle at the time the wireless signal was received may be calculated based on the time stamp and flight information of the unmanned aerial vehicle.

Claim (Index 17):
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for locating mobile devices in an area, wherein the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is flying in communication range with at least one mobile device in the area, the unmanned aerial vehicle comprising:\n a GPS system; wireless communication means able to receive and measure representative parameters of a wireless signal transmitted by the mobile device; and a memory storing software instructions; and a processor configured to execute the software instructions to perform operations comprising:\n measuring, by said first unmanned aerial vehicle a representative parameter related to the wireless signal as received by the unmanned aerial vehicle at a plurality of locations; \n wherein the UAV plurality of locations are selected taking into account the reduction of the location errors caused by the Geometric Dilution of Precision (GDOP), when locating the mobile device; \n associating, by said first unmanned aerial vehicle, the measured values of the representative parameters with the mobile device identification and with the location of the first unmanned aerial vehicle at the time the wireless signals were received at said plurality of locations; and \n estimating, the location of the mobile device in the area based on the measured values of the representative parameters and the location of said first unmanned aerial vehicle at the times it received the wireless signals.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.86885
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15224497', '14579760', '15274333', '16031338', '15214023']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7079247968027237
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4923352191833588
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6863658390407872
- Mean Citation Score: 239.641516
- Max Citation Score: 243.86768
- Similarity Product: 183.97335988635064

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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