PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16408921
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["375", "224000"]

Abstract:
This disclosure describes example antenna monitoring systems and methods that can include, among other things, a transmitter near each of the antennas in a distributed antenna system (DAS). The transmitter can transmit on a certain frequency or channel corresponding to that antenna, so that the various transmitters in the DAS each transmit on different frequencies. These frequencies can be detected by a receiver and can be processed to determine whether a signal at any frequency or channel expected to be received is missing. If any expected signal is missing for any frequency or channel, the receiver can infer that the antenna or a component associated with the antenna (such as cabling) may have failed. The receiver can then output an indication or notification that may be accessed by maintenance personnel and/or emergency personnel to enable them to identify and repair the non-functioning antenna or component.

Claim (Index 45):
An antenna monitoring system comprising hardware circuitry configured to:\n receive a first plurality of signals from a plurality of antennas, the first plurality of signals transmitted by the plurality of antennas in response to a second plurality of signals being transmitted to the antennas on a plurality of channels by a plurality of transmitters located in proximity to the plurality of antennas, each transmitter of the plurality of transmitters configured to transmit a signal of the second plurality of signals on a particular channel of the plurality of channels; in response to not receiving a signal associated with a channel of the plurality of channels, determine that no signal has been received from at least one antenna of the plurality of antennas associated with a transmitter assigned the channel; and in response to the determination, output an indication corresponding to a failure of the at least one antenna.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83721
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16122629', '12697289', '15878531', '15622871', '16166415']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4257480306107774
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.536149831835275
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4367882107332271
- Mean Citation Score: 206.91778600000004
- Max Citation Score: 374.81183
- Similarity Product: 299.0016678475094

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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