PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16080997
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["370", "380000"]

Abstract:
A redundantly operable industrial communication system in which a first communication device is redundantly connected to a first switch via first and second communication network connections and a second communication device is redundantly connected to a second switch via first and second communication network connections, data frames transmitted from the first communication network connection of the first and second communication device to the respective switch are assigned to a first virtual local network whereas data frames transmitted from the second communication network connection of the first and second communication device to the respective switch are assigned to a second virtual local network, and data frames assigned to the first virtual local network are transmitted over a first wireless network via a respective first wireless transceiver station whereas data frames assigned to the second virtual local network are transmitted via a second wireless network over a respective second wireless transceiver station.

Claim (Index 36):
A method for redundantly operating an industrial communication system in which at least a first communication device and a second communication device are redundantly connected to an industrial communication network, the first and second communication devices each including at least a first communication network connection and a second communication network connection, and including a signal processing unit which is connected to the first and second communication network connections, which forwards data frames to be transmitted to both communication network connections in a parallel manner and which detects redundant data frames received from both communication network connections, and includes at least a first network infrastructure device and a second network infrastructure device which are assigned to the industrial communication network and which each include a plurality of communication network connections and a coupling element which interconnects communication network connections, the method comprising:\n connecting redundantly the first communication device to the first network infrastructure device via its first and second communication network connections; connecting redundantly the second communication device to the second network infrastructure device via its first and second communication network connections; assigning data frames transmitted from the first communication network connection of the first and second communication devices to the respective network infrastructure device to a first virtual local area network and assigning data frames transmitted from the second communication network connection of the first and second communication devices to the respective network infrastructure device to a second virtual local area network; connecting at least a first radio transceiver station and a second radio transceiver station to the first and second network infrastructure devices, respectively; transmitting data frames assigned to the first virtual local area network over a first radio network via the respective first radio transceiver station, and transmitting data frames assigned to the second virtual local area network over a second radio network via the respective second radio transceiver station; and coordinating orders for data frames to be transmitted by the first and second radio transceiver stations which are connected to the same network infrastructure device via transmission queue management, such that both radio transceiver stations never transmit data frames to the same destination media access control MAC address at the same time.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.92308
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16080919', '16097399', '15719045', '15849164', '14034095']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.584856364151356
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5452605928956589
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5808967870257863
- Mean Citation Score: 326.633292
- Max Citation Score: 405.04523
- Similarity Product: 383.3341001679563

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

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