PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16154908
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["370", "329000"]

Abstract:
Methods to support measurements for LTE user equipments are proposed. Due to reduced bandwidth design for cost reduction, resources for UEs are limited to contiguous six physical resource block (PRB) pairs (1.4 MHz). Six or less contiguous PRBs per narrow sub-band located in the whole channel bandwidth is allocated for transmission and reception for UEs. Novel control channel and data channel designs are proposed to make UEs be able to camp on LTE cells. Methods for intra-frequency measurement, for received signal time difference (RSTD) measurement, and for channel quality assessment for UEs are also provided. In one embodiment, UE is allocated with a measurement gap for intra-frequency measurements and RSTD measurements. In another embodiment, UE is configured with a frequency-hopping pattern and receives a PRB pair starting index per subframe for CSI measurement.

Claim (Index 9):
A user equipment (UE) comprising:\n a resource configuration circuit that obtains a first set of resources in a mobile communication network, wherein the first set of resource belongs to a first narrowband in a wider channel bandwidth, and wherein the first narrowband comprises a plurality of contiguous physical resource block (PRB) pairs over a first period; the resource configuration circuit that obtains a second set of resources by the UE, wherein the second set of resources belongs to a second narrowband comprising a plurality of contiguous PRB pairs over a second period; and a measurement circuit that performs intra-frequency measurement and/or reference signal time difference (RSTD) measurement by the UE based on an assigned measurement gap from the first period to the second period, wherein the UE tunes a passband of downlink filter for the intra-frequency and/or RSTD measurements during the measurement gap.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.73563
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15008281', '15318745', '15379765', '15681740', '15762458']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5614828058427912
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.610983595376739
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5664328847961859
- Mean Citation Score: 336.9172920000001
- Max Citation Score: 550.83813
- Similarity Product: 519.7214459609913

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

Dataset: test