PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15957025
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["455", "041200"]

Abstract:
Provided are systems and methods for reversing the conventional roles of central and peripheral devices in a BLE network. Doing so includes implementing an end node (EN) as the sole initiator of a connection between a particular EN and other components within the network. Such initiating is controllable by the network so as to effect a transfer of EN functionality among one or more of the other components. Implementation of the transfer depends on a network controlled timing determining functionality of all network components. Accordingly, the network is enabled to effect the power consumption of those components in an effort to optimize use of their respective power resources.

Claim (Index 16):
A method of BLE communications, comprising:\n in a system comprising an access point (AP) configured to connect to a network and transmit a first beacon advertisement message, an AP configured to not connect to the network, and transmit a second beacon advertisement message, so as to define a reference point (RP), and an end node (EN), in which the AP is selected as comprising a stationary AP, or a mobile AP, and the EN is configured to initiate a connection with the selected AP in response to the receipt of the first beacon advertisement message, and operating each of the selected AP, the RP, and the EN according to a predetermined network timing configured to trigger an alternate mode of operation of the selected AP, or the RP, or a combination thereof, wherein\n in response to the connection with the selected AP being initiated by the EN, the AP is caused to transfer to the network at least identifying information of the EN, and identifying information of one or more of the selected AP, and the RP, \n the EN determines whether to initiate the connection with the selected AP in response to evaluating from the first beacon advertisement message at the time of transmission of the first beacon advertisement message each of at least (a) whether a proximity of the selected AP to the EN is a nearest proximity and (b) a loading of the network to which the selected AP is connected.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65714
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15626083', '15927388', '14319801', '15741678', '11130250']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6989209545165523
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5358422379125325
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6826130828561504
- Mean Citation Score: 251.124502
- Max Citation Score: 373.95944
- Similarity Product: 314.5240141842508

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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