PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15889194
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["370", "316000"]

Abstract:
The disclosure provides for the flexible assignment of user beams to gateway beams in digital payload satellite systems. A “virtual beam”—a set of data values associating a physical user satellite beam with a Gateway Earth Station (“GW”) and used by the GW to service the physical user satellite beam, may be created or defined each time a physical user satellite beam is assigned to a GW. For one physical user beam, a plurality of virtual beams may be created, where each virtual beam corresponds to a GW. The virtual beams may be used to provide for the flexible assignment of user beams to gateway beams in a variety of applications such as GW expansion, physical user beam reassignment from one GW to another GW, diversity operation of terminals, and GW redundancy.

Claim (Index 3):
The method of  claim 2 , further comprising:\n physically deploying the second GW prior to configuring the virtual beam; and performing readiness testing on the second GW to determine that the second GW is ready to serve the physical spot beam, wherein the digital payload of the satellite is reconfigured after performing readiness testing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14493
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13779401', '14730558', '14590776', '14589637', '15451307']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5569598192911902
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5189514510603345
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5531589824681047
- Mean Citation Score: 250.415236
- Max Citation Score: 293.48184
- Similarity Product: 161.20235454643247

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

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