PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16011727
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["455", "435200"]

Abstract:
A method, system and apparatus for selecting an access point includes detecting a location and direction of motion of a mobile device, detecting a strength of signal from candidate access points and determining a location of such access points based upon at least one of the (i) location and direction of motion of the mobile device, (ii) access point location information known to the mobile device, and (iii) monitoring of the change in detected signal strength from candidate access points that occurs upon the movement of the mobile device. Embodiments of the system and apparatus way include a mobile terminal device or may include such a device and a plurality of access points that provide access to a network, such as a base station or a router that provide access to an enterprise network or a local area network that is connected to the internet.

Claim (Index 29):
A non-transitory computer readable medium having at least one application stored thereon that defines a method that is performed when the at least one application is executed by a mobile communication terminal, the method defined by the at least one application comprising:\n in response to determining that the mobile communication terminal is involved in an ongoing communication session, the mobile communication terminal actuating a process for detecting and recording speed and direction of motion of the mobile communication terminal, the process comprising:\n determining at least one of a speed of the mobile communication terminal and a direction of motion in which the mobile communication terminal is moving via at least one motion sensor of the communication terminal, \n the mobile communication terminal saving the at least one of the determined speed of the mobile communication terminal and the direction of motion in which the mobile communication terminal is moving, and \n the mobile communication terminal predicting a future location of the mobile communication terminal based on the at least one of the saved direction of motion and the speed of the mobile communication terminal and a determined location of the mobile communication terminal; \n the mobile communication terminal monitoring signal strengths of candidate access points to determine whether the signal strength for any of the candidate access points changes during movement of the mobile communication terminal such that the mobile communication terminal determines for each of the candidate access points at least one of (i) a rate of increase in signal strength for that access point and (ii) a rate of decrease in signal strength for that access point as the mobile communication terminal moves; during the ongoing communication session, the mobile communication terminal determining that one of the candidate access points provides improved connectivity to a network as compared to an access point to which the mobile communication terminal is currently communicating with for access to the network based upon the monitored signal strengths of candidate access points, the location of the mobile communication terminal, the predicted future location of the mobile communication terminal, and the at least one of the saved speed of the mobile communication terminal and the saved direction of motion in which the mobile communication terminal is moving,\n wherein the improved connectivity is determined to be an improved connectivity in view of the predicted future location of the mobile communication terminal such that a momentary detection of another candidate access point having a stronger signal does not result in a selection of that candidate access point when expected subsequent movement of the mobile communication terminal to the predicted future location indicates that the signal of that candidate access point will be weaker than the signal strength of at least one other candidate access point; \n in response to the determining that one of the candidate access points provides improved connectivity to the network during the ongoing communication session, the mobile communication terminal selecting the determined one of the candidate access points for subsequent communications to register with that one of the candidate access points for accessing the network via the selected one of the candidate access points; and during the ongoing communication session, the mobile communication terminal communicating with the selected one of the candidate access points for registering with the selected one of the candidate access points for accessing the network.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32353
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11425714', '13310142', '13975203', '13257505', '12151775']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6711026017114013
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.473830241699806
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6513753657102419
- Mean Citation Score: 151.504284
- Max Citation Score: 155.1169
- Similarity Product: 109.7078234759152

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