PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15874383
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["370", "338000"]

Abstract:
Coordinating access points (APs) used to facilitate network access is contemplated, such as but not necessary limited to facilitating coordination among a plurality of APs in a wireless local area network of a home or other location where the plurality of APs cooperate to facilitate interfacing signaling with another network.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for coordinating access points (APs) within a home to provide clients wireless access to a wide area network (WAN), the method comprising:\n establishing a first local area network (LAN) between the APs, the first LAN being sufficient for the APs to communicate with each of the other APs and to exchange client data with a gateway; exchanging associated client reports (ACPs) over the first LAN between the APs, each ACP being generated by one of the APs to report client information for the clients associated therewith; and making a decision to execute a steering operation as a function of the ACPs being exchanged over the first LAN, the steering operation including steering a first client of the clients associated with a first AP of the APs to become associated with a second AP of the APs.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.31707
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15466650', '15491172', '13958869', '14855079', '15453850']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5288456454241495
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.487143983925168
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5246754792742514
- Mean Citation Score: 181.915768
- Max Citation Score: 237.94368
- Similarity Product: 186.0249154946136

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