PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15965968
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["370", "338000"]

Abstract:
A wireless access point (WAP) including: antennas, shared and discrete components forming transmit and receive chains coupled to the antenna for orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) WLAN communications with wireless stations. The station set identifier identifies any legacy stations that do not support multi-user (MU) MIMO concurrent downlinks from the WAP, and a number of WLAN subnets for concurrent downlinks communications thereto. The subnet controller generates the WLAN subnets each having a discrete beacon channel together with a discrete medium access control (MAC) for collision sense multiple access (CSMA) uplinks from associated stations to the WAP, and concurrent downlinks from the WAP including concurrent downlinks to legacy stations associated with different subnets; and the subnet controller configured to inject virtual access control indicia into each of the subnets to control uplinks from legacy stations on each of the subnets to the WAP.

Claim (Index 1):
A wireless communication apparatus for providing a wireless local area network (WLAN) to a plurality of wireless stations; and the wireless communication apparatus comprising:\n a wireless access point (WAP) having:\n a plurality of antenna; \n a plurality of shared and discrete components coupled to one another to form transmit and receive chains each coupled to a corresponding one of the plurality of antenna for orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) WLAN communications with the plurality of wireless stations; \n a station set identifier configured to identify among the plurality of stations, any legacy stations that do not support multi-user (MU) MIMO concurrent downlinks from the WAP, and to identify a number of WLAN subnets for enabling concurrent downlinks from the WAP to the legacy stations; and \n a subnet controller coupled to the plurality of shared and discrete components and to the station set identifier and configured to generate the number of WLAN subnets identified by the station set identifier and for each subnet a discrete beacon channel for wireless station association and communication together with discrete medium access control (MAC) module for collision sense multiple access (CSMA) uplinks from associated ones of the plurality of stations to the WAP, and concurrent downlinks of discrete communications from the WAP including concurrent downlinks to a selected one of the legacy stations associated with a first of the subnets and to a selected other of the legacy stations associated with a second of the subnets; and the subnet controller configured to inject virtual access control indicia into each of the subnets to control uplinks from legacy stations on each of the subnets to the WAP.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98795
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14740536', '14229833', '14187318', '14612293', '15062191']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5611626515904123
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6281560882847028
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5678619952598414
- Mean Citation Score: 425.10462
- Max Citation Score: 564.6567
- Similarity Product: 556.9760945769308

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