PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15775548
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["370", "254000"]

Abstract:
A communication technique for conveying configuration information in a preamble in a frame is described. In this communication technique, an access point may receive a frame from a transmitting electronic device in a wireless local area network (WLAN) with media-access-control (MAC) information in a preamble and at least a packet as a payload. The MAC information may be communicated from a MAC layer to a physical layer in an interface circuit in the access point. Moreover, the MAC information may include an identifier of the receiving electronic device. Based on the identifier, the access point may select a receive antenna pattern for use when receiving the payload.

Claim (Index 1):
An access point, comprising:\n one or more antenna nodes configured to couple to an antenna; and an interface circuit, coupled to the one or more antenna nodes, configured to communicate with a transmitting electronic device in a wireless local area network (WLAN), wherein the interface circuit is configured to: receive, using a physical layer in the interface circuit, a preamble in a frame associated with the transmitting electronic device, wherein the preamble comprises an identifier of the transmitting electronic device, and wherein the preamble is received using an omnidirectional antenna pattern; select, using the physical layer, a receive antenna pattern for the antenna based on the identifier of the transmitting electronic device; and receive, using the physical layer, a payload in the frame, wherein the payload is received using the receive antenna pattern.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88889
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15605158', '15245891', '15432758', '15182536', '15278597']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5488903984886313
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4833089219477071
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.542332250834539
- Mean Citation Score: 176.37647399999997
- Max Citation Score: 203.61757
- Similarity Product: 147.6798334496033

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

Dataset: test