PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15954313
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["714", "749000"]

Abstract:
System and method embodiments are provided to support network communications with groups of UEs. The embodiments include a two-level group-based hybrid-automatic repeat request (HARQ) mechanism and acknowledgement (ACK)/negative ACK (NACK) feedback. An embodiment method includes receiving, at a UE within a virtual multi-point (ViMP) comprising UEs, a data packet for a target UE (TUE) that is broadcasted from a base station (BS) to the Vi MP node, decode the data packet, and upon successfully decoding the data packet, broadcasting the data packet to the UEs within the ViMP node until a timer pre-established by the BS expires or an ACK message is received from the TUE or the ViMP node. In an embodiment, broadcasted data received in the ViMP node is re-broadcasted upon receiving a negative acknowledgement (NACK) message from the TUE, a beacon UE, or any of the UEs within the ViMP node.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for two-level hybrid-automatic repeat request (HARQ) signaling, the method comprising:\n receiving, at a first user equipment (UE), a data packet broadcasted by a base station (BS) for a second UE; successfully decoding the data packet; without receiving an acknowledgement (ACK) message or a negative ACK (NACK) message from the second UE, broadcasting, by the first UE, the data packet; and without receiving a NACK message from the second UE, rebroadcasting, by the first UE, the data packet until either the first UE receives another broadcast of the data packet from the BS, or the first UE receives the ACK message from the second UE,

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.1375
- Patent Class: 714.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15257594', '13829188', '14881651', '13646549', '15590738']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3238567332089568
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5676165964507145
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3482327195331326
- Mean Citation Score: 390.770056
- Max Citation Score: 448.3689
- Similarity Product: 420.741612335211

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

Dataset: test