PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16154592
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["370", "216000"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems for reliable broadcasting that use re-transmissions, in a multi-hop, time-slotted wireless network, is presented. The methods and systems evaluate the trade-off between power consumption and communication reliability, and are consequently able to provide increasing degrees of robustness for broadcasts in the wireless network. Embodiments of the present invention are able to incrementally use re-transmissions, therein trading-off battery life for an increased message completion rate or a lower packet error rate, for example, in order to reliably broadcast critical or high-priority message network-wide.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for reliable broadcasting in a wireless network comprising a source node and a plurality of relay nodes, the method implemented at the source node, comprising:\n broadcasting a first transmission, comprising a time-to-live (TTL) field, a hop count field and a message, in a first timeslot of a plurality of timeslots; generating an updated hop count field by incrementing the hop count field; and re-broadcasting, upon determining that the updated hop count field is less than or equal to the TTL field, a second transmission, comprising the TTL, the updated hop count field and the message, in a second timeslot of the plurality of timeslots that is subsequent to the first timeslot.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.50794
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15288808', '15717475', '15355287', '11314616', '11348607']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5716120452817878
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5717213887204885
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5716229796256579
- Mean Citation Score: 326.4416060000001
- Max Citation Score: 501.08398
- Similarity Product: 384.1177842872477

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

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