PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15870330
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["455", "411000"]

Abstract:
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving electromagnetic waves at a physical interface of a transmission medium that propagate along the transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path, wherein the electromagnetic waves are guided by the transmission medium, and wherein the electromagnetic waves have a non-optical frequency range. A determination is made as to whether the electromagnetic waves are being received from a second network device according to a comparison of a fingerprint of the electromagnetic waves and an expected fingerprint of expected parameters for the electromagnetic waves transmitted by the second network device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Claim (Index 9):
A device comprising:\n a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, the comprising:\n accessing a profile including an expected fingerprint of expected parameters based on reflected signals associated with a transmission having a non-optical frequency range, wherein the transmission is guided along a transmission medium of a network path without requiring an electrical return path; \n comparing a fingerprint with the expected fingerprint, wherein the fingerprint is generated from parameters based on measurements of a reflected signal; and \n determining a device topology along at least a portion of the transmission medium of the network path according to the comparing, wherein the reflected signal is associated with a test signal transmitted to a second communication device along the transmission medium of the network path, and wherein the profile is associated with the second communication device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81667
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14733988', '14737983', '15695513', '15489984', '15369968']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7172142401625474
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5040853609252033
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6959013522388131
- Mean Citation Score: 244.039668
- Max Citation Score: 292.70517
- Similarity Product: 240.7439804607957

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