PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15937747
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["375", "262000"]

Abstract:
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing an optimized rate search process. In one aspect, a first device may determine a signal strength measurement based on a result of a beamforming process. The first device may determine the signal strength measurement associated with a transmission sector selected based on a sector level sweep of the beamforming process. The first device may determine a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for transmissions from the first device to a second device based, at least in part, on the signal strength measurement determined from the beamforming process. In one aspect, the first device may determine the MCS without using probing messages during the rate search process. In one aspect, the first device may determine an initial MCS based on the signal strength measurement, and determine whether to select or change the initial MCS.

Claim (Index 7):
The method of  claim 5 , wherein determining whether to select or change the initial MCS based on one or more feedback messages received from the second device, comprises:\n receiving a first feedback message from the second device indicating whether the first probe message transmitted using the initial MCS met a packet error rate (PER) threshold; in response to determining the first probe message transmitted using the initial MCS did not meet the PER threshold,\n selecting a second MCS and transmitting a second probing message to the second device using the second MCS, wherein the second MCS is a next lower MCS in an MCS index before the initial MCS; \n receiving a second feedback message from the second device indicating whether the second probe message transmitted using the second MCS met the PER threshold; \n in response to determining the second probe message met the PER threshold, selecting the second MCS for transmissions from the first device to the second device; and \n in response to determining the second probe message did not meet the PER threshold, determining whether to select a third MCS based on at least one additional feedback message received from the second device, wherein the third MCS is a next lower MCS in an MCS index before the second MCS.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31944
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15175615', '14866224', '15142822', '14757415', '13892044']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4912133017177324
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5013351044862007
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4922254819945793
- Mean Citation Score: 179.3483
- Max Citation Score: 185.44768
- Similarity Product: 109.68180998947145

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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