PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15749601
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["324", "533000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for communication systems comprising an electrically conductive line. The disclosure proposes a method in a line estimation device for determining termination characteristics of an electrically conductive line in a communication system. The method comprises outputting a test signal to the line, wherein the test signal is a wideband test signal with a bandwidth arranged to provide an adequate measurement time-resolution. The method further comprises receiving reflections from impedance discontinuities of the line in response to the test signal. The method also comprises forming a trace of the reflections. The method additionally comprises identifying at least one anomaly in the trace of reflections. The method yet further comprises determining termination characteristics of the line based on characteristics of the trace before and after the identified at least one anomaly. The disclosure also relates to corresponding line estimation devices and computer programs.

Claim (Index 6):
The method according to  claim 5 , wherein determining correlation characteristics comprises determining reflection symmetry characteristics of the reflections before and after the at least one anomaly by selecting a first subset of the trace, wherein the first subset comprises the at least one anomaly, determining a second subset based on the first subset adjusted for attenuation, determining a third and a fourth subset from the second subset, the third and fourth subset comprising subsets of the adjusted trace before and after the at least one anomaly, respectively, and determining a correlation coefficient based on the third and fourth subset.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27536
- Patent Class: 324.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13438955', '09810932', '15594533', '14437977', '12411143']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5586052836996275
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4732546426353292
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5500702195931977
- Mean Citation Score: 177.733228
- Max Citation Score: 185.40063
- Similarity Product: 134.51949282434464

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

Dataset: test