PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15905141
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["370", "350000"]

Abstract:
A method of operating a base station in a cellular communications network, in which Radio Resource Control (RRC) connected user equipment devices can be kept synchronized with the cell on the uplink or become unsynchronized. The method comprises determining whether a specified condition within a cell served by the base station is fulfilled, and, in response to determining whether the specified condition is fulfilled, determining whether RRC connected user equipment devices should be kept uplink synchronized with the cell, or whether RRC connected user equipment devices should be allowed to become uplink unsynchronized. Signals are transmitted to RRC connected user equipment devices to affect whether or not such devices are kept uplink synchronized with the cell, in response to determining whether RRC connected user equipment devices should be kept uplink synchronized with the cell, or whether RRC connected user equipment devices should be allowed to become unsynchronized on the uplink.

Claim (Index 13):
A base station arranged to serve a cell in a cellular communications network, the base station being Radio Resource Control (RRC) connected with one or more user equipment (UE) devices, the base station comprising:\n a transceiver; at least one processor operatively coupled to the transceiver; and at least one memory storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, configure the base station to:\n determine whether a first specified loading condition within the cell served by the base station is fulfilled; \n in response to determining that the first specified loading condition is not fulfilled, determine whether a second specified loading condition is fulfilled. \n in response to determining that the second loading condition is fulfilled, select one of a first mode and a second mode of operation, wherein:\n in the first mode of operation, a first portion of the one or more UE devices should be kept uplink synchronized with the base station; and \n in the second mode of operation, a second portion of the one or UE devices should be allowed to become uplink unsynchronized with the base station; \n \n in response to selecting one of the first and second modes of operation, transmit a parameter affecting uplink synchronization to the one or more RRC connected UE devices.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 65.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.7931
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14772286', '15542857', '14818107', '15541112', '15535786']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5088623961495393
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5766928381944765
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.515645440354033
- Mean Citation Score: 295.8082740000001
- Max Citation Score: 481.9375
- Similarity Product: 390.4887889400125

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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