PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16052098
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["455", "449000"]

Abstract:
A method for assigning downlink transmit power levels to radio nodes (RNs) in a small cell radio access network (RAN) includes assigning initial power levels to the RNs. For each cell, first events are counted indicating that UEs receiving a signal from their serving cells with a signal strength below a specified value have entered a coverage hole. For each cell, second events are counted indicating that UEs have re-established a previous connection on one of the cells. For each pair of cells, a coverage hole is identified between them if the number of first events for one cell exceeds a threshold and a number of second events or re-establishment of a previous connection on the other cell exceeds another threshold. For each identified coverage hole, the downlink transmit power level is increased of at least one RN in the pair of cells between which the coverage hole is identified.

Claim (Index 12):
A method of assigning downlink transmit power levels to radio nodes (RNs) in a radio access network (RAN), comprising:\n assigning initial power levels to a plurality of RNs in a deployed RAN; for each cell associated with the plurality of RNs, counting a number of first events indicating that UEs receiving a signal from their serving cells with a signal strength below a specified value have entered a coverage hole; for each cell associated with the plurality of RNs, counting a number of second events indicating that UEs have re-established a previous connection on one of the cells; for each pair of cells i and j in the RAN, identifying a coverage hole between a cell i and a cell j in the RAN if a number of first events counted for cell i exceeds a threshold level and a number of second events counted for re-establishment of a previous connection on cell j from a disconnect on cell i exceeds another threshold level; for each of the identified coverage holes, increasing the downlink transmit power level of at least one of the RNs associated with the pair of cells between which the coverage hole has been identified, wherein counting the number of first events includes receiving messages from the UEs indicating that the UEs receiving a signal from their serving cells with a signal strength below the specified value have entered a coverage hole.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11688
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15043691', '15069781', '15081311', '14075509', '14075516']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6668264937900394
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5876728526889594
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6589111296799315
- Mean Citation Score: 306.736648
- Max Citation Score: 490.14746
- Similarity Product: 434.9739328406787

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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