PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16343842
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["370", "331000"]

Abstract:
In a cellular telecommunications system, outage management is managed in respect of each cell B by a nominated neighbor cell A, the identity of which is recorded in a neighbor list for cell B. If a cell C, D, other than the nominated neighbor, detects a suspected outage in a cell B, the cell detecting the outage identifies the nominated neighbor A from the neighbor list of cell B, and transmits an outage report to the nominated neighbor cell A, which coordinates a handover and outage management process. This avoids multiple detections of the same outage resulting in conflicting attempts to manage the recovery process. Selection of the nominated neighbor of a cell B may be made autonomously by the cell itself or by a centralized processor, and may be done in such a way as to support network resilience by avoiding reciprocity between cells, selecting, for a cell B connected to a first backhaul system, a nominated neighbor A using a second backhaul system, and avoiding the use of cells E having intermittent or transient connections to the network.

Claim (Index 1):
A fault detection method for a cellular communications system comprising a plurality of base stations, the method comprising:\n maintaining, by each base station, a neighbor list to identify nearby base stations to which mobile terminals may be handed over, the neighbor list identifying, for each nearby base station, a nominated neighbor base station; if a first base station detects an outage or deterioration in signal quality of a second base station, retrieving, by the first base station, data from its neighbor list to identify a nominated neighbor base station of a second base station and transmitting a report of the detected outage or deterioration in signal quality to the nominated neighbor base station identified in the neighbor list; and on receiving the report from the first base station, responding, by the nominated neighbor base station, by monitoring for potential outages or deterioration in signal quality of the second base station and for coordinating handover and outage management processes in response to received reports.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26437
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16085781', '14044738', '13142103', '13813710', '12414395']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5431906378386621
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5024784926111693
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5391194233159128
- Mean Citation Score: 222.135612
- Max Citation Score: 261.23135
- Similarity Product: 179.81949300187233

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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