PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16001298
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["370", "238000"]

Abstract:
A method, system, and apparatus for optimizing a connection of a station (STA) in a mesh network of a plurality of 802.11 access points (APs) carried out by a client steering daemon (CSD) running on an AP of the plurality of APs. The CSD may calculate a cost ratio based on a plurality of metrics from a list and compare the signal strength information against a predetermined value. Based on the outcome of the signal strength comparison the CSD may analyze risk for the STA, determine a course of action for the STA based on the calculating, comparing, and analyzing and send instructions to a plurality of CSDs running on each of the plurality of APs for the course of action. The course of action may be keeping a STA associated with a current interface, guiding a STA to a destination interface, or kicking a STA to a destination interface.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for optimizing a connection of a first station (STA) in a mesh network of a plurality of 802.11 access points (APs) carried out by a client steering daemon (CSD) running on an AP of the plurality of APs, the method comprising:\n calculating, by the CSD, a cost ratio based on a plurality of metrics from a list stored on the AP; comparing signal strength information associated with the STA against a predetermined value; analyzing a risk assessment for the STA based on the outcome of the signal strength comparison; and sending an announcement message to a plurality of CSDs running on each of the plurality of APs with instructions to guide the STA to a destination interface based on the cost ratio and the risk assessment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14103
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15969474', '14695613', '15534772', '14340098', '15457331']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.529018853765349
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4911952957122261
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5252364979600367
- Mean Citation Score: 185.922636
- Max Citation Score: 224.8273
- Similarity Product: 159.06078100780252

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