PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15862562
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["455", "456100"]

Abstract:
Methods and techniques are described for supporting location services for a user equipment (UE) in a Fifth Generation wireless network using a Location Management Function (LMF) based control plane (CP) location solution. The LMF serves as the main anchor point for location support instead of an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF). The LMF may be in either a serving Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) for a UE or in a Home PLMN for a roaming UE. The LMF may obtain location information for a UE via an AMF from a Next Generation Radio Access Network or the UE and may interact with a Gateway Mobile Location Center to receive location requests from and return location information to an external client. The LMF solution may be more efficient and require less implementation than an AMF based CP location solution.

Claim (Index 42):
A first location server for supporting location services for a user equipment (UE) comprising:\n an external interface for receiving and sending messages to entities in a network; and at least one processor coupled to the external interface, the at least one processor configured to receive a first message for the UE transmitted by a first entity, wherein the first message comprises one of a request for a location of the UE, a request for a periodic and triggered location of the UE, or an indication of an emergency call for the UE, determine a second location server, send a second message to the second location server to request location information for the UE, receive a third message from the second location server comprising the location information, and send a fourth message to a second entity, the fourth message comprising the location information, wherein the first location server uses a control plane interface and a control plane protocol to send the second message and receive the third message.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 37.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94937
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11471049', '15596697', '14863794', '11178083', '15707606']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7110496967027663
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4967534889150676
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6896200759239965
- Mean Citation Score: 255.06629400000003
- Max Citation Score: 260.31015
- Similarity Product: 197.9933664844484

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

Dataset: test