PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15916195
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["370", "329000"]

Abstract:
Various aspects of the disclosure relate to distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication such as coordinated beamforming or Joint MIMO. In some aspects, distributed MIMO is used to support communication in a cluster of wireless nodes (e.g., access points). A distributed MIMO scheduling scheme as taught herein is used to schedule the wireless nodes (e.g., access points and/or stations) operating within the cluster. For example, selected stations may be triggered to communicate with respective access points.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for communication, comprising:\n an interface configured to obtain a communication schedule that identifies a plurality of first wireless nodes of a wireless node cluster for collectively serving a plurality of second wireless nodes via a distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication, wherein the communication schedule specifies that a first one of the plurality of second wireless nodes communicates with a first one of the plurality of first wireless nodes during a particular timeslot and a second one of the plurality of second wireless nodes communicates with a second one of the plurality of first wireless nodes during the particular timeslot; and a processing system configured to generate a frame to trigger the distributed MIMO communication by the plurality of second wireless nodes, wherein the generation of the frame is based on the communication schedule, wherein the interface is further configured to output the frame for transmission.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.64815
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15842781', '14255946', '15587135', '14920792', '12607542']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.558758730294823
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4855051938770133
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5514333766530422
- Mean Citation Score: 233.642796
- Max Citation Score: 239.73653
- Similarity Product: 190.5535214878845

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

Dataset: test