PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15875632
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["370", "329000"]

Abstract:
A method for use in a IEEE 802.11 device, comprising: wirelessly connecting, by the device, to a gateway that is part of a wireless local area network (WLAN), the gateway configured to operate as an access point (AP) for the WLAN and bridge the WLAN to the Internet; receiving, by the device from the gateway, an announcement message including a network identifier (NI) of a subnetwork of the WLAN, the subnetwork including the gateway and a first node that is also configured to operate as an AP for the WLAN; transmitting, by the device to the gateway, a request message to join the subnetwork; receiving, by the device from the gateway, a response message including a confidential credential for connecting to the subnetwork; establishing a first connection to the first node based on the confidential credential and the NI and beginning to operate as an AP for the WLAN.

Claim (Index 11):
An apparatus, comprising:\n a transmitter; a receiver, and a processing circuitry operatively coupled the transmitter and the receiver, wherein: the receiver is configured to receive an announcement message from a gateway device that is arranged to operate as an access point (AP) for a wireless local area network (WLAN) and bridge the WLAN to the Internet, the announcement message including a network identifier (NI) of a subnetwork of the WLAN, the subnetwork including the gateway device and a first node that is also configured to operate as an AP for the WLAN, the transmitter is configured to transmit to the gateway device, a request message to join the subnetwork, the receiver is further configured to receive from the gateway device, a response message including a confidential credential for connecting to the subnetwork, the processing circuitry is configured to establish a first connection to the first node based on the confidential credential and the NI and begin to operate as an AP for the WLAN, the first connection being a one-hop data-link layer connection, the receiver is further configured to receive data originating from a station (STA) that is connected to the WLAN via the apparatus, the data having a destination outside of the WLAN, and the transmitter is further configured to transmit the data to the first node for transmission towards the gateway device and the destination that is outside of the WLAN.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.73016
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14453634', '15830628', '14778780', '10837124', '13151959']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5291639838449804
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.476299965222644
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5238775819827468
- Mean Citation Score: 176.176172
- Max Citation Score: 189.42345
- Similarity Product: 140.8099028897613

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

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