PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15977513
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["370", "329000"]

Abstract:
The described technology is generally directed towards an autonomous topology management scheme in a wireless communications network that establishes a hierarchical structure from a peer-to-peer network without assistance from the wireless network. A group of user equipments negotiate with each other to elect a local manager that acts as a base station by which other user equipments of the group can access network resources. Described is an example voting scheme by which the negotiation process elects the local manager for a term.

Claim (Index 8):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the determining the local manager of the group further comprises evaluating a plurality of voting data communicated within the group, determining, based on the plurality of voting data, that the group elects the first radio user equipment to be the local manager of the group, operating the first radio user equipment as the local manager for a term, comprising scheduling radio resources for the second radio user equipment to transmit or receive data, transmitting data to the second radio user equipment, receiving data from the second radio user equipment, transmitting data to a radio network device as a relay and receiving data from a radio network device as a relay, and upon expiration of the term, broadcasting a self-candidacy notification that volunteers the first radio user equipment as a candidate to remain as the local manager of the group.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.49123
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15939892', '14341787', '15623963', '10625445', '11542022']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5004391203656698
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4841528233029704
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4988104906593998
- Mean Citation Score: 131.88405
- Max Citation Score: 148.34705
- Similarity Product: 93.52210991199016

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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