PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15926735
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["709", "223000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure discloses a method and a network device for client association management based on estimated session duration. Specifically, a network device determines that a client device is on an active session. The client device is associated with a first access point of a plurality of access points. The network then estimates a remaining duration of the active session to obtain an estimated remaining duration. Responsive at least to the estimated remaining duration of the active session being greater than a threshold value, the network device causes the client device to associate with a second access point different than the first access point. Responsive at least to the estimated remaining duration of the active session being less than the threshold value, the network device refrains from causing the client device to associate with the second access point.

Claim (Index 40):
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions which, when executed by at least one hardware processor of a network device, causes performance of operations comprising:\n estimating a remaining duration of an active session between a client device and a first access point in a wireless local area network (WLAN); calculating a first session quality measure indicating a first estimated session quality in response to the client device continuing to be associated with the first access point during the remaining duration of the active session; calculating a second session quality measure indicating a second estimated session quality in response to the client device associating with a second access point in the WLAN, wherein associating with the second access point corresponds to a cost of disruption in networking service to the client device; determining a threshold value based on (1) a difference between the first session quality and the second session quality, and (2) the cost of disruption in networking service to the client device; responsive to the estimated remaining duration of the active session being greater than the threshold value, redirecting the client device to associate with the second access point in the WLAN during the remaining duration of the active session; and responsive to the estimated remaining duration of the active session being less than the threshold value, continuing serving the client device by the first access point during the remaining duration of the active session.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.625
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14519895', '15059616', '14264525', '14524743', '15267294']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2220085081785242
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4967056137679695
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2494782187374687
- Mean Citation Score: 178.876146
- Max Citation Score: 270.01013
- Similarity Product: 231.9605322800905

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