PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16240713
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["367", "082000"]

Abstract:
A communication method is provided for a communication system comprising a transmitter and a receiver. The method involves communicating data from the transmitter to the receiver over a banded communication channel The method comprises: applying a forward error correction, FEC, code to data to be transmitted to obtain FEC-encoded data; assigning the FEC-encoded data into a plurality of sub-channels; modulating the data from each of the plurality of sub-channels into a corresponding one of a plurality of sub-bands, the plurality of sub-bands having spaced apart center frequencies; and concurrently transmitting the data from the plurality of sub-bands onto a banded communication channel, the banded communication channel comprising one or more pass-bands and one or more stop-bands.

Claim (Index 40):
A method for providing communication between a downhole location on a drill string and an uphole location on the drill string, the method comprising:\n providing, at the downhole location, an acoustic transmitter connected for transmitting an acoustic signal into a communication channel comprising the drill string; providing, at the uphole location, an acoustic receiver connected for receiving a transmitted acoustic signal from the communication channel; applying a forward error correction, FEC, code to data to be transmitted to obtain FEC-encoded data; assigning the FEC-encoded data into a plurality of sub-channels, each sub-channel comprising a plurality of sub-carriers, each sub-carrier spaced apart in the frequency domain; modulating the FEC-encoded data from each of the plurality of sub-channels into a corresponding one of a plurality of frequency sub-bands, the plurality of frequency sub-bands having spaced apart center frequencies, each frequency sub-band spread over a finite frequency range surrounding its center frequency and the modulated data for each sub-channel occupying the finite frequency range of its corresponding frequency sub-band; and concurrently transmitting the modulated data from the plurality of frequency sub-bands from the transmitter onto the communication channel, the communication channel comprising one or more pass-bands and one or more stop-bands.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13559
- Patent Class: 367.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15331515', '15331426', '11353364', '15024834', '11102006']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5837494178300604
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5914813030082369
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.584522606347878
- Mean Citation Score: 294.78701199999995
- Max Citation Score: 503.1479
- Similarity Product: 484.1437173625767

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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