PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15866823
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["375", "349000"]

Abstract:
A technique, as well as select implementations thereof, pertaining to dual receive processing in wireless communications is described. The technique may involve receiving, by a plurality of receive processing modules, an incoming signal from an antenna to provide a plurality of processing results. The technique may also involve generating, by a determination mechanism, a determination output based on the plurality of processing results. The determination output may include either one or more decoding metrics based on a respective processing result from one of the plurality of receive processing modules or a weighted combination of more than one respective processing result from more than one receive processing module of the plurality of receive processing modules. The technique may further involve decoding, by a decoder, the determination output to provide a decoded signal.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus, comprising:\n an antenna configured to receive an incoming signal; a plurality of receive processing circuits comprising at least a first receive processing circuit and a second receive processing circuit, each of the plurality of receive processing circuits coupled to the antenna and configured to receive the incoming signal from the antenna and process the incoming signal to produce a respective processing result; a determination circuit configured to receive the processing results from the plurality of receive processing circuits and generate a determination output, the determination output comprising either one or more decoding metrics based on a respective processing result from one of the plurality of receive processing circuits or a weighted combination of more than one respective processing result from more than one receive processing circuit of the plurality of receive processing circuits; and a decoder configured to receive the determination output from the determination circuit and decode the determination output to provide a decoded signal, wherein the determination circuit comprises:\n a plurality of weight calculation circuits each of which corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of receive processing circuits, each weight calculation circuit configured to receive the respective processing result from the respective receive processing circuit and generate a respective weighting factor, the plurality of weight calculation circuits comprising at least a first weight calculation circuit and a second weight calculation circuit corresponding to the first receive processing circuit and the second receive processing circuit, respectively; and \n a probability combining and decoding metric calculation circuit configured to receive the respective processing results from the plurality of receive processing circuits and receive the respective weighting factors from the plurality of weight calculation circuits, the probability combining and decoding metric calculation circuit also configured to perform log-likelihood ratio (LLR) combining before calculating one or more decoding metrics to generate the determination output.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44068
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15866797', '14942962', '15866832', '10376486', '14766102']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4940968316267503
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.513435439783737
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4960306924424489
- Mean Citation Score: 258.412298
- Max Citation Score: 332.56033
- Similarity Product: 329.539316879946

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