PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16113881
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["455", "437000"]

Abstract:
A communication apparatus participates in a first wireless network and if the communication apparatus is performing data communication with a communication partner, the communication apparatus will not search for other wireless networks and/or switch to another wireless network. If no data communication with a communication partner is occurring, the communication apparatus can search for other wireless networks and switch to a detected wireless network.

Claim (Index 9):
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer executable instructions for causing a computer to execute a communication method, the communication method comprising:\n determining whether or not data communication that is compliant with a Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) standard and specifies a communication partner apparatus is being performed in a first NAN cluster; in a case where it is determined that the data communication is being performed, perform control such that a discovery beacon for detecting a second NAN cluster that is higher in cluster grade than the first NAN cluster is not received outside a discovery window of the first NAN cluster; and in a case where it is not determined that the data communication is being performed, upon receiving the discovery beacon for detecting the second NAN cluster, stop participating in the first NAN cluster and join the second NAN cluster.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15232220', '15404611', '15864281', '15265266', '15999009']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6543778783962289
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.520242079067841
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6409642984633901
- Mean Citation Score: 235.827082
- Max Citation Score: 326.5111
- Similarity Product: 297.6351391411663

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

Dataset: test