PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15749601
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["324", "533000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for communication systems comprising an electrically conductive line. The disclosure proposes a method in a line estimation device for determining termination characteristics of an electrically conductive line in a communication system. The method comprises outputting a test signal to the line, wherein the test signal is a wideband test signal with a bandwidth arranged to provide an adequate measurement time-resolution. The method further comprises receiving reflections from impedance discontinuities of the line in response to the test signal. The method also comprises forming a trace of the reflections. The method additionally comprises identifying at least one anomaly in the trace of reflections. The method yet further comprises determining termination characteristics of the line based on characteristics of the trace before and after the identified at least one anomaly. The disclosure also relates to corresponding line estimation devices and computer programs.

Claim (Index 5):
The method according to  claim 1 , wherein determining termination characteristics comprises determining correlation characteristics of the reflections before and after the at least one anomaly and determining if a first segment of the line has an open termination, is short-circuited or is followed by a second segment of the line based on the correlation characteristics.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27536
- Patent Class: 324.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13438955', '09810932', '15594533', '14437977', '12411143']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5886082493014974
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4718291780084234
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.57693034217219
- Mean Citation Score: 177.733228
- Max Citation Score: 185.40063
- Similarity Product: 139.2890579483664

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

Dataset: test