PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16023814
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "328000"]

Abstract:
Example computer-implemented methods, computer-readable media, and computer systems are described for providing communication protocol architecture or framework for magnetic induction (MI)-based communications in wireless underground sensor networks (WUSNs), for example, in underground oil reservoirs. In some aspects, environment information of an underground region that affects the transmission qualities of MI communications is evaluated. A protocol stack is identified. The protocol stack includes a number of layers for MI communications among a number of sensors in a WUSN in the underground region. A cross-layer framework and the distributed protocol are built to jointly optimize communication functionalities of the plurality of layers based on the evaluation.

Claim (Index 20):
A system comprising one or more wireless sensors that include:\n memory; and data processing apparatus operable to:\n evaluate environment information of an underground region that affects the transmission qualities of magnetic induction (MI) communications; \n identify a protocol stack including a plurality of layers for MI communications among a plurality of sensors in a wireless underground sensor network (WUSN) in the underground region; and \n build a cross-layer framework to jointly optimize communication functionalities of the plurality of layers based on the evaluation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65278
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15370740', '16012917', '15486754', '15685238', '14415455']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5582440448224575
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.583636452070195
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5607832855472313
- Mean Citation Score: 313.8536200000001
- Max Citation Score: 497.51776
- Similarity Product: 448.2715198270035

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

Dataset: test