PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15866910
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["370", "238000"]

Abstract:
A wireless connection device for establishing a connection path between a parent device and a child device through one more relay devices includes one or more processors that determines whether the signal strength between the child device and each of the relay devices is greater than or equal to a first threshold value; when the signal strength is determined to be greater than or equal to the first threshold value, selects, from among a plurality of possible communication paths for which the signal strength has been determined to be greater than or equal to the first threshold value, a communication path that minimizes a hop count; and, when the signal strength is less than the first threshold value for all of the plurality of possible communication paths, selects, from among the plurality of possible communication paths, a communication path that has the largest signal strength.

Claim (Index 1):
A wireless connection device, comprising:\n a network interface that communicates with at least one of a first communication terminal, a second communication terminal, and one or more relay communication terminals that can be arranged between the first and second communication terminals; and one or more processors connected to the network interface, the one or more processors performs the following:\n receiving signal strength information indicating a signal strength between the second communication terminal and each of the first communication terminal and said one or more relay communication terminals; \n receiving hop count information indicating respective hop counts for a plurality of possible communication paths that can be formed between the first communication terminal and the second communication terminal through said one or more relay communication terminals or without any of said one or more relay communication terminals therebetween; \n determining whether the signal strength, as indicated by the received signal strength information, is greater than or equal to a first threshold value for each of the plurality of possible communication paths; \n when the signal strength is determined to be greater than or equal to the first threshold value, selecting, from among the plurality of possible communication paths for which the signal strength has been determined to be greater than or equal to the first threshold value, a communication path that minimizes the hop count, and, when the signal strength is less than the first threshold value for all of the plurality of possible communication paths, selecting, from among the plurality of possible communication paths, a communication path that has the largest signal strength; and \n causing the network interface to communicate with at least one of the first communication terminal, the second communication terminal, and one or more of the relay communication terminals that are on the selected communication path, if any, so as to establish the selected communication path between the first communication terminal and the second communication terminal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.67241
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11882509', '13963557', '15564336', '15245654', '15321395']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4915063800080601
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4811816351142
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4904739055186741
- Mean Citation Score: 191.051498
- Max Citation Score: 203.18889
- Similarity Product: 160.665419360404

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

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