PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15952163
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "332000"]

Abstract:
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for serving AP selection in a network having multiple access points (APs). In one aspect, a serving AP selection unit can steer a device (such as a client station, STA, or a child AP) based on a quality of service profile (such as a capacity requirement or a delay requirement) of the device. The device may be initially associated with a first AP (as the current serving AP) in the network. The serving AP selection unit may select a second AP as a new serving AP for the device, and cause the device to associate with the second AP rather than the first AP. The selection of a serving AP may take into account delay or hop count in addition to path capacities for various paths in the network.

Claim (Index 9):
The first AP of  claim 5 , wherein the instructions to obtain the performance information include instructions when, when executed by the processor, cause the first AP to obtain the performance information from the second AP, and wherein the performance information includes at least one member selected from the group consisting of:\n basic service set (BSS) information regarding a BSS at the second AP, the BSS information including channel utilization, number of wireless clients, number of child APs, link data rate, and scheduling behavior; overlapping BSS (OBSS) channel utilization; client capacity information for estimating available capacity for an additional client of the BSS; child AP capacity information for estimating available capacity for an additional child AP of the BSS; topology between the second AP and neighboring APs; hop count for each path from the second AP to the root AP; and delay metrics regarding each path from the second AP to the root AP.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06329
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11537728', '14855079', '15466650', '14035991', '14095406']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.595305527932456
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5076390299703125
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5865388781362416
- Mean Citation Score: 194.56690200000003
- Max Citation Score: 205.44545
- Similarity Product: 109.50648878959416

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

Dataset: test