PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16107656
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["726", "030000"]

Abstract:
Described herein are systems and methods for providing software provisioning of functionality in a wireless communications device. Software-enabling functionality may include systems for granting a license to intellectual property or other pre-embedded functionality within a device. Communications to and from the device may be used to send or receive activation messages and/or licensing messages. Network capabilities may be provisioned using activation messages sent over the network. Activation messages may be sent in-band or out-of-band, for a device connected to the Internet and/or a mobile operator core network. Licenses may be required for any functions or intellectual property present on a given device. Activation may enable logical modules of a system-on-chip (SOC), functions of a software-defined radio (SDR), baseband, or DSP core. The disclosed systems and methods could thereby provide a new, flexible paradigm, namely, “Silicon as a Service (SaaS).”

Claim (Index 1):
A method for increasing network capacity in a wireless communications device, comprising:\n determining, at the wireless communications device, a need for activation of an unused functionality of an embedded hardware portion at the wireless communications device to increase network capacity; receiving, at a provisioning server, an activation request message from the wireless communications device for activation of the unused functionality at the wireless communications device; determining, at the provisioning server, a path to the wireless communications device based on messages from a plurality of wireless communication devices and based on performance factors; sending a negotiating message from the provisioning server to another server to determine pricing for granting a license to enable the unused functionality; granting, at the provisioning server, the license to the unused functionality within the wireless communications device, thereby allowing the unused functionality otherwise not available to be made available for use; and sending, to the wireless communications device, an activation response message over the determined path to the wireless communications device, the activation response message for enabling the unused functionality of the wireless communications device at the wireless communications device; wherein the performance factors comprise available network capacity, thereby provisioning the unused functionality of the embedded hardware portion of the wireless communications device and addressing the need of the wireless communications device for increased network capacity.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78022
- Patent Class: 726.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15059284', '15084057', '14489234', '15204802', '14822839']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2689006597039539
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4821754985198943
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.290228143585548
- Mean Citation Score: 169.22803000000005
- Max Citation Score: 269.56213
- Similarity Product: 264.85647804549103

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

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