PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16135471
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["455", "041200"]

Abstract:
A communication apparatus includes a transmitting function and a receiving function for a radio signal, and, while belonging to a first group of devices, activates the transmitting and receiving functions to perform communication during a first period, and deactivates the transmitting and receiving functions outside the first period. The communication apparatus determines whether or not it performs monitoring for a presence of a second group of devices during a second period, controls performing of the monitoring by activating the receiving function during the second period when it is determined that the communication apparatus performs such monitoring, and keeping the transmission and receiving functions inactive outside the first period when it is determined that the communication apparatus does not perform such monitoring, and notifies another device in the first group of information related to the second group during the first period when a presence of the second group is detected.

Claim (Index 13):
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that when executed cause a computer to perform a process, the process comprising:\n performing a transmitting function and a receiving function for a radio signal compliant with the neighbor awareness network (NAN) standard, wherein, while belonging to a first NAN cluster, the communication apparatus activates the transmitting function and the receiving function to perform communication during a first period that is a discovery window (DW) of the first NAN cluster, and deactivates the transmitting function and the receiving function outside of the discovery window; determining whether or not the communication apparatus, among devices in the first NAN cluster, performs monitoring for a presence of a second NAN cluster which is different from the first NAN cluster during a second period which is outside of the first period; controlling the performing of the transmitting function and the receiving function by activating the receiving function and performing the monitoring during the second period when it is determined that the communication apparatus performs the monitoring, and by keeping the transmitting function and the receiving function inactive outside the first period when it is determined that the communication apparatus does not perform the monitoring.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.67797
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15651246', '15864281', '15404611', '15748754', '15265200']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6764596810644978
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5439547789343017
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6632091908514782
- Mean Citation Score: 291.86997000000014
- Max Citation Score: 386.19083
- Similarity Product: 304.84275978853765

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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