PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16004928
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["375", "257000"]

Abstract:
In accordance with disclosed embodiments, a first power line communication (PLC) device connected to a PLC network includes channel control logic that assigns a first channel of the PLC network for transmission on a power line of PLC data packets between the first PLC device and a second PLC device connected to the PLC network and assigns a second channel of the PLC network for transmission on the power line of PLC data packets between the first PLC device and the third PLC device connected to the PLC network. The PLC device includes a transceiver that receives and transmits PLC data packets on the PLC network and which operates as a bridge device that communicates on both the first and second channels to pass PLC data packets between the second PLC device and the third PLC device.

Claim (Index 14):
A method for using a power line communication (PLC) device to communicate in a PLC network that includes a power line of an electrical power distribution system, the method comprising:\n when a PLC data packet is intended for a receiving device arranged in a first sub-network of the PLC network in which the PLC device is also arranged, transmitting the PLC data packet from the PLC device onto the power line using a first frequency band, wherein the PLC data packet transmitted using the first frequency band is prevented from being received at a second sub-network of the PLC network by a filter circuit coupled to the power line between the first and second sub-networks; and when the PLC data packet is intended for a receiving device arranged in the second sub-network, transmitting the PLC data packet from the PLC device onto the power line using a second frequency band, wherein the PLC data packet transmitted using the second frequency band is allowed to pass through the filter circuit to the receiving device arranged in the second sub-network.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.95833
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15421147', '14688526', '14464752', '14557858', '13457612']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4686608998276536
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5174379674824497
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4735386065931332
- Mean Citation Score: 218.893308
- Max Citation Score: 306.11353
- Similarity Product: 215.04938487621783

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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