PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16110729
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["455", "450000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of a user equipment (UE) and method for resource allocation and device-to-device (D2D) discovery hopping are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the UE may receive signaling from an enhanced node B (eNB) indicating discovery resources to transmit discovery signals on within an LTE operation zone. The discovery resources may include a discovery zone which may comprise a plurality of physical resource blocks (PRBs) and a plurality of subframes. The UE may transmit a discovery signal for receipt by one or more other UEs for D2D discovery within some of the PRBs of the discovery zone. The PRBs for the transmission of the discovery signal may be determined in accordance with a hopping mode to provide increased frequency diversity within a bandwidth of the discovery zone. The hopping mode may comprise intra-subframe hopping, inter-subframe hopping or joint intra/inter-subframe hopping.

Claim (Index 16):
An apparatus of a base station (BS), the apparatus comprising memory; and processing circuitry configured to:\n configure a user equipment (UE) for a proximity services (ProSe) direct discovery operation, wherein to configure the UE for the ProSe direct discovery operation, the processing circuitry is configured to: encode radio resource control (RRC) signaling, for transmission to the UE, the RRC signaling including a D2D discovery resource configuration for configuring a discovery period and a discovery resource pool, and wherein the D2D discovery resource configuration defines the discovery period according to a starting subframe index and an ending subframe index, and defines resources of the discovery resource pool according to a starting resource block index, an ending resource block index, and a number of resource blocks in the resource block pool; and configure transceiver circuitry to transmit the RRC signaling to the HE for determining, according to the D2D discovery resource configuration, the discovery resource pool for transmission of a discovery signal during the discovery period, and wherein the memory is configured to store the D2D discovery resource configuration.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97468
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14314957', '15186779', '14482060', '14280799', '15096504']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7133559506840573
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5762016772622517
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6996405233418768
- Mean Citation Score: 323.101042
- Max Citation Score: 353.2552
- Similarity Product: 302.34440525531767

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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