PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15927735
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["370", "331000"]

Abstract:
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for steering an association of a device in a network having multiple access points (APs). In one aspect, a first AP can obtain per-AP metric information regarding a plurality of other APs in the network. The per-AP metric information may include backhaul performance information regarding at least one wireless backhaul channel in the network. The per-AP metric information may include an estimated air time fraction value reported by the other APs. A selection to steer the device from the first AP to a second AP can be based, at least in part, on the per-AP metric information. In some implementations, a Multi-AP Controller can redistribute per-AP metric information collected from multiple APs in the network. In some implementations, a topology of the network may be optimized by steering a child AP to another wireless backhaul link.

Claim (Index 3):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the instructions to determine to steer the device include instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the first AP to perform at least one operation selected from the group consisting of:\n receiving a message from the Multi-AP Controller of the network, the message identifying the device; determining that a load condition of the first AP exceeds a threshold; determining to load balance the device away from the first AP based, at least in part, on fronthaul channel utilization of the first AP; determining a change in wireless resources available to the first AP; and determining a quality of service (QOS) requirement of the device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03659
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15466650', '14855079', '14095406', '14035991', '15174037']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6048076469163554
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.503036592090083
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5946305414337281
- Mean Citation Score: 211.674612
- Max Citation Score: 231.76025
- Similarity Product: 140.82101673854888

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

Dataset: test