PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15975052
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["370", "242000"]

Abstract:
Distribution of management services in distributed antenna systems having a central unit and remote units configured to time-division multiplex (TDM) downlink and/or uplink management signals into time slots to form a TDM management frame signal. In this manner, collision will not occur between multiple management signals communicated over a common communications medium at the same time in the distributed antenna system. Collision detection and management mechanism can add design complexity, cost by requiring additional components, and require additional area on electronic boards. The TDM management frame signal may also be modulated at a carrier frequency before being combined with RF communications signals so that the combined signals are within a linear range of shared certain communications components to reduce cost and area.

Claim (Index 10):
A wireless communications system comprising:\n at least one central unit configured to:\n receive a plurality of downlink management signals from at least one management controller for distribution to a respective plurality of remote units; \n time-division multiplex (TDM) the plurality of downlink management signals into time slots of the respective plurality of remote units to form a TDM downlink management frame signal; \n receive downlink radio frequency RF communication signals of at least one RF communications frequency band for at least one RF communications service; \n combine the TDM downlink management frame signal with the downlink RF communication signals; and \n send the combined TDM downlink management frame signal and the downlink RF communications signals to the plurality of remote units over a downlink communications link; and \n at least one remote unit configured to:\n receive a plurality of uplink management signals from at least one client device; \n time-division multiplex (TDM) the plurality of uplink management signals into individual time slots to form a TDM uplink management frame signal; \n receive uplink RF communication signals of at least one RF communications frequency band for at least one RF communications service; \n combine the TDM uplink management frame signal with the uplink RF communication signals; and \n send the combined TDM uplink management frame signal and the uplink RF communications signals to the at least one central unit over an uplink communications link, \n wherein each remote unit comprises at least one electrical-to-optical converter configured to convert the combined TDM uplink management frame signal and the uplink RF communications signals into a combined TDM uplink optical management frame signal and uplink optical RF communications signals.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.45556
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14599710', '15447580', '14486387', '15283952', '15137389']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5773207380731812
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5289999979768416
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5724886640635471
- Mean Citation Score: 288.561524
- Max Citation Score: 359.69815
- Similarity Product: 342.0387140010833

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

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