PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16178433
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["455", "434000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for announcing the expected delay period between when a wireless AP stops transmitting on a first channel and begins transmitting on a second channel. After the last beacon frame is send on an old channel, a delay is experienced between transmitting the last frame on the old channel and transmitting the first frame on the new channel, where the delay varies based on the implementation of the AP and any CAC that must be performed on the new channel before broadcasting. Therefore, embodiments of the present invention provide an expected channel switch time element, for example, in a beacon frame or probe response frame.

Claim (Index 16):
The method as described in  claim 15 , wherein said channel switch time is included in a channel switch announcement.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 43.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03333
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14878758', '15134253', '13191041', '14141214', '10288098']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7273782907702527
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5037796772474414
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7050184294179715
- Mean Citation Score: 233.61121000000003
- Max Citation Score: 237.87646
- Similarity Product: 154.59516445109844

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