PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16188437
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["455", "041200"]

Abstract:
A BLE network includes a first piconet including a first master scanner and a first group of low-power slave/advertisers for transmitting wireless advertisements. Circuitry in the first master/scanner wirelessly scans to detect an advertisement transmitted by a first slave/advertiser of the first group and transmits a connection request in response to the detecting, and transmits a schedule for subsequent advertisements after an initial advertisement by the first slave/advertiser. Circuitry in the first slave/advertiser transmits the initial advertisement, receives an acceptance a resulting connection request, establishes association with the first master scanner, and then causes the first slave/advertiser to go to sleep, to wake up and transmit subsequent advertisements according to the schedule and accept resulting connection requests, and transmits available data to the first master/scanner, and goes back to sleep.

Claim (Index 7):
A method of operating a BLE (Bluetooth low energy) network, the method comprising:\n providing a first piconet including a first master/scanner and a first group of slave/advertisers for transmitting wireless advertisements and for establishing wireless connections, respectively, with the first master/scanner; wherein each slave/advertiser in the first group can only establish a wireless connection with the first master/scanner; operating a first slave/advertiser of the first group to transmit an initial advertisement; operating the first master/scanner in a scanning mode to detect the initial advertisement and to transmit a corresponding connection request in response to the detecting to the first slave/advertiser; operating the first slave/advertiser to receive and accept the corresponding connection request and establish an association with the first master/scanner; operating the first master/scanner to transmit to the first slave/advertiser a schedule for subsequent advertisements to synchronize the first master/scanner with the first slave/advertiser, and causing the first slave/advertiser to go to sleep; operating the first slave/advertiser to wake up and transmit subsequent advertisements according to the schedule, and operating the first master/scanner to simultaneously scan for the subsequent advertisements according to the schedule and transmit connection requests corresponding to the subsequent advertisements, and operating the first slave/advertiser to accept corresponding connection requests from the first master/scanner when the first slave/advertiser has data available to be advertised; operating the first slave/advertiser to advertise the available data to the first master/scanner, and operating the first master/scanner to aggregate the advertised available data; providing a second piconet including a second master/scanner and a second group of low-power slave/advertisers for transmitting wireless advertisements and establishing wireless connections, respectively, with the second master/scanner; operating the second master/scanner in wireless scanning to detect an advertisement transmitted by a second slave/advertiser of the second group and transmitting a connection request in response to the detecting, and transmitting a schedule for subsequent advertisements after an initial advertisement by the second slave/advertiser; operating the second slave/advertiser for transmitting the initial advertisement, receiving and accepting a resulting connection request, establishing an association with the second master/scanner, and then causing the second slave/advertiser to go to sleep in a low-power mode, waking up and transmitting subsequent advertisements only according to the schedule, and accepting resulting connection requests from the second master/scanner when data is available to be advertised, transmitting the available data to the first master/scanner, and causing the second slave/advertiser to go back to sleep; and operating the second master/scanner to transmit an advertisement containing aggregated data received from the first slave/advertiser to a third master/scanner.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22222
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15608502', '13958271', '14219431', '13492013', '11972797']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.70802989275988
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6169766294312914
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6989245664270213
- Mean Citation Score: 345.43766
- Max Citation Score: 531.9644
- Similarity Product: 521.9969416966437

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

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