PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16017134
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "350000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments for providing reference signal generation redundancy in wireless communications systems are disclosed. To avoid a single point of failure in reference signal generation that could cause components relying on the reference signal to not operate properly, the reference signal generation circuits disclosed herein include a plurality of reference signal generation modules. One reference signal generation module is configured as the master reference signal generation module to generate a master reference signal distributed in the wireless communication system. The other reference signal generation modules are configured as slave reference signal generation modules. If a failure is detected in the generation of the master reference signal in the master reference signal generation module, another slave reference signal generation module is reconfigured to be the new master reference signal generation module to generate the master reference signal. In this manner, the reference signal generation circuit does not have a single point of failure.

Claim (Index 11):
A wireless communication system, comprising:\n a plurality of wireless communication system components, comprising:\n a central unit, comprising:\n at least one central unit downlink circuit configured to receive a downlink communications signal in a downlink communications path and provide the received downlink communications signal to at least one remote antenna unit among a plurality of remote antenna units; and \n at least one central unit uplink circuit configured to receive an uplink communications signal from a remote antenna unit among the plurality of remote antenna units in an uplink communications path; \n \n the plurality of remote antenna units, each comprising:\n at least one antenna; \n a remote downlink circuit configured to receive downlink communications signals in the downlink communications path and wirelessly transmit the received downlink communications signals over the at least one antenna to at least one client device; and \n a remote uplink circuit configured to wirelessly receive uplink communications signals from the at least one antenna from at least one client device in the uplink communications path and provide the received uplink communications signals over the uplink communications path to the at least one central unit uplink circuit; and \n \n a reference signal generation circuit, comprising:\n a first reference signal generation module configured to:\n provide a first reference signal as a master reference signal to at least one wireless communication system component among the plurality of wireless communication system components based on detection of the first reference signal by a first detector; and \n provide a second reference signal as the master reference signal to the at least one wireless communication system component based on detecting failure of the first reference signal by the first detector.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53968
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15156543', '15236645', '15655192', '14317438', '14227215']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.504413838765736
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5695132326088916
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5109237781500515
- Mean Citation Score: 279.4873180000001
- Max Citation Score: 451.60532
- Similarity Product: 390.5636131865931

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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