PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976301
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["375", "262000"]

Abstract:
Consideration of contention windows with spatial listen before talk (LBT) operations is discussed. In multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) transmission operations over a shared transmission medium, use of spatial LBT transmissions may be implemented with fairness options and parameters influenced by a condition of the MIMO transmitter, such conditions as the level of MIMO capability or the enablement of polite spatial LBT nulling transmissions. When a MIMO transmitter identifies data for transmission, it may determine a configuration of the medium access contention operation, synchronous or asynchronous content, based on the condition of the MIMO transmitter. The MIMO transmitter may then transmit the data either using spatial LBT transmission or not according to the configuration of the medium access contention operation.

Claim (Index 12):
A method of wireless communication, comprising:\n counting down, by a transmitter node, a first random number within a first contention window for access to a first transmission link of a transmission medium shared by a plurality of transmitter nodes; detecting, at the transmitter node, a transmission signal on the first transmission link from another transmitter node of the plurality of transmitter nodes prior to expiration of the first random number; counting down, by the transmitter node in response to the transmission signal, a second random number within a second contention window for access to a second transmission link of the transmission medium, wherein the second transmission link resides in a null spatial dimension of the first transmission link of the transmission medium; and accessing the second transmission link, by the transmitter node, when no occupying signals are detected on the second transmission link after expiration of the second random number.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 46.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86111
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15725762', '15688122', '15950418', '15970554', '15246005']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4879567994302413
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4901045156540198
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4881715710526191
- Mean Citation Score: 216.241706
- Max Citation Score: 221.15865
- Similarity Product: 158.96102247986195

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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