PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16010466
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["375", "224000"]

Abstract:
A method for estimating downstream gain and upstream gain of an amplifier at an intermediate location in a twisted pair line between a DSL Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) and a customer premises equipment (CPE) for high data rate broadband operation. The method includes: an offline calibration process for obtaining offline tables, and an estimation process including: setting the downstream gain and the upstream gain to a set of predefined gains in the twisted pair line when activated and getting an indication if the line is in ShowTime. In case the line is in ShowTime, the estimation process further measures the downstream/upstream signal level, estimates the distance from the amplifier to the CPE and distance from the amplifier to the to the CPE and the distance from the amplifier to the DSLAM, and obtains the upstream/downstream gains.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for estimating downstream gain and upstream gain of an amplifier at an intermediate location in a twisted pair line between a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) and a customer premises equipment for high data rate broadband operation, comprising:\n in an offline calibration process, obtaining a first offline table and a second offline table; an estimation process comprising:\n setting the downstream gain and the upstream gain, to a set of predefined gains in said twisted pair line when activated, first value of said set of predefined gains to the downstream gain and second value of said set of predefined gains to the upstream gain; \n obtaining an indication if said DSL Access Multiplexer state is ShowTime; \n measuring downstream signal level and upstream signal level at the output of said amplifier; \n measuring downstream signal level and upstream signal level at the output of said amplifier; \n estimating the distance from said amplifier to said customer premises equipment and distance from said amplifier to said DSL Access Multiplexer using said first offline table and said measured downstream signal level and upstream signal level; and \n obtaining said upstream gain and said downstream gain using said second offline table and said distances.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05556
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13574679', '14653286', '13674442', '11316781', '14888713']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.455241829439616
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.479472185274058
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4576648650230602
- Mean Citation Score: 155.257762
- Max Citation Score: 168.03278
- Similarity Product: 117.02196186947108

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

Dataset: test