PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15947604
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["455", "456100"]

Abstract:
A radio signal path design tool that allows radio link propagation path profiling or path-loss measurement where the link partner antenna towers are located in a proposed fixed location on the earth's surface, but are extendable a certain distance in any direction from the fixed location. The design tool can be used to compute a radio link path profile at the proposed tower location, while still correctly representing terrain variations in a variable path extension distance on either side of the radio link. To correctly represent terrain variations across the depicted portion of the earth's surface, the tool computes and applies a modified earth-bulge factor or k-factor. The variable extension distance on either side of the radio link allows for latitudinal and/or longitudinal variations in antenna tower placement, greatly facilitating the identification of appropriate positions of antenna towers during the wireless link design phase.

Claim (Index 13):
A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by a processor, perform a method in a computing system of generating a radio signal propagation path profile, the method comprising:\n receiving a proposed location of a first radio antenna and a second radio antenna, the first and second radio antennas having a radio link extending a first distance between the antennas; computing earth curvature correction values used to compute a radio signal path profile extending the first distance; determining a distance on either side of the radio link by which to extend a radio signal path profile computation, the distance on either side of the radio link and the first distance of the radio link collectively comprising an extended distance; computing earth curvature correction values along the extended distance; computing a modified earth bulge factor value using the computed earth curvature correction values along the first distance, and the computed earth curvature correction values along the extended distance; computing radio signal propagation path parameters for the radio link using the modified earth bulge factor value; and generating a display of the radio link between the first and second radio antennas based on the computed radio signal propagation path parameters, the display depicting terrain for the extended distance on either side of the radio link.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83333
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15947643', '09848052', '14896432', '11211192', '10705995']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6277785529302956
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4998089728595108
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6149815949232171
- Mean Citation Score: 168.39778
- Max Citation Score: 258.12033
- Similarity Product: 210.8205308161497

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

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