PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15965624
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["370", "311000"]

Abstract:
Time division multiple access (TDMA) media access control (MAC) adapted for single user, multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. Various com systems may include smart meter stations (SMSTAs) and/or wireless stations (STAs). Appropriate coordination is made with respect to such communication devices to ensure appropriate uplink (and/or downlink) communications between a network manager or coordinator (e.g., an access point (AP)) and the SMSTAs and/or STAs. With respect to SMSTAs, the relative duration of time that such communication devices are awake and operative versus asleep (or in a reduced power and/or functionality state) can be significant. Certain implementations may include a relatively large number of such communication devices (e.g., 10s, 100s, 1000s, or more), and appropriate coordination and scheduling of such communications to/from them is made using one or more variations of TDMA signaling (e.g., including different respective service periods (SPs), communication medium access operational modes, adaptation thereof, etc.).

Claim (Index 12):
The SMSTA of  claim 9 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to:\n receive, via the communication interface, the announcement or assignment frame or another announcement or assignment frame from the AP that specifies that SMSTA is assigned into a first group based on the at least one characteristic of SMSTA that is different than a second group based on at least one other characteristic of the another SMSTA.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86408
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14607460', '13539186', '13739847', '13539194', '15136164']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6270670317358613
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5619282606624851
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6205531546285238
- Mean Citation Score: 429.38664400000016
- Max Citation Score: 453.85345
- Similarity Product: 334.9224912134528

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

Dataset: test