PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16001550
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["370", "254000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and method are provided for improving connectivity for items of user equipment in a wireless network. The apparatus has a first antenna system for providing a first sector of a telecommunications network, and a second antenna system for providing a second sector of the telecommunications network. Further, the apparatus has a third antenna system for communicating with a base station of the telecommunications network to provide a first wireless backhaul path for the first and second sectors. In addition, a fourth antenna system is used to provide a wireless communication link to facilitate coupling of the apparatus into a mesh network of devices. The mesh network has at least one point of access into the telecommunications network such that the mesh network supports provision of at least one further wireless backhaul path for the first and second sectors. Backhaul management circuitry is then arranged, in at least one mode of operation, to control utilisation of the third antenna system and the fourth antenna system to provide backhaul connectivity to the telecommunications network for at least items of user equipment connected to the apparatus via the first and second antenna systems. Through the use of such an apparatus, it has been found that significant improvements in network coverage can be readily obtained, and further the overall spectral efficiency of the network can be enhanced to improve network capacity, with the backhaul management circuitry maintaining an efficient backhaul connection through the combined use of the first wireless backhaul path and at least one further wireless backhaul path supported via the mesh network.

Claim (Index 17):
An apparatus as claimed in  claim 16 , wherein the cluster is arranged so that at least one of the devices provides a media access control (MAC) layer that is shared with at least one other device within the cluster.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.79798
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15117983', '15186134', '15187616', '11966556', '12311359']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5718823241431621
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4966143173735315
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5643555234661991
- Mean Citation Score: 206.101988
- Max Citation Score: 211.80144
- Similarity Product: 137.28321192552568

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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