PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15768312
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "329000"]

Abstract:
The method of the invention envisages determining, for each packet that is to be transmitted/retransmitted, through an LLC communication protocol, which is the top sublayer of the datalink layer of the ISO-OSI model, (LLC logic) autonomously, node by node, the specific communication apparatus to be used from the ones available on the single node, to which subset of the nodes said packet is to be transmitted (routing logic), i.e., the number and the set of neighbouring nodes to which it is to be transmitted, the specific communication apparatus to be used from the multiple ones that may be available, and the maximum number of retransmissions to be made, by using a decentralized self-learning algorithm that enables each node to learn and select dynamically the best operating mode, according to the number of transmissions already made.

Claim (Index 5):
The method as per the preceding claim, characterized in that, in said self-learning algorithm, in each node i the state of a packet s is represented by the number of times that the packet has been transmitted (s=0 if the packet has not yet been transmitted, s=1 if the packet has already been transmitted once, etc.), while the possible actions a are the different subsets of nodes to which the packet can be sent:\n (a={j}: the packet is sent just to the node j, a={j 1 ,j 2 }: the packet is sent to the nodes j 1  and j 2 , a={j 1 , j 2 , . . . , j n }: the packet is sent to the nodes j 1 , j 2 , . . . , j n , etc.); and in that for each state, the self-learning algorithm keeps track of the set of variables Q i (s,a) for each value of s and a, Q i (s,a) representing the local estimate of the routing module regarding the cost associated to execution of the action a when the node i is in the state s, i.e., the total cost associated to sending to the nodes in the set a of a packet that has already been transmitted s times.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06757
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15768275', '13876183', '13876498', '12644796', '11895608']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.576525635011516
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5028998567665651
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.569163057187021
- Mean Citation Score: 199.142552
- Max Citation Score: 234.0583
- Similarity Product: 148.1977750743151

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

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