PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15745141
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["370", "534000"]

Abstract:
The disclosure relates to a beamforming device ( 200 ), including: a first beamforming circuit ( 201 ) configured to generate a first beam ( 211 ) based on a first set of beamforming coefficients; a second beamforming circuit ( 202 ) configured to generate a second beam ( 212 ) based on a second set of beamforming coefficients; and a scheduling circuit ( 203 ) configured to allocate ( 204, 206 ) a first set of frequency resources, a second set of frequency resources, the first set of beamforming coefficients and the second set of beamforming coefficients to a plurality of mobile stations (UE 0,  UE 1,  UE 2 ) based on an optimality criterion related to a target scheduling metric.

Claim (Index 20):
A method for allocating a set of beamformer subbands to a plurality of mobile stations, the method comprising:\n providing a set of unscheduled beamformer subbands; setting a scheduling metric to an initial value; repeating the following instructions from an initial iteration index to a size of the set of unscheduled beamformer subbands: selecting, for each subband of the set of unscheduled beamformer subbands, a mobile station of the plurality of mobile stations for which a scheduling metric is maximum and storing the scheduling metric of the selected mobile station; selecting a maximum of the stored scheduling metrics and allocating a subband of the set of unscheduled beamformer subbands to the mobile station associated with the maximum of the stored scheduling metrics; computing a data rate for the allocated subband; increasing the scheduling metric by a contribution of the allocated subband; removing the allocated subband from the set of unscheduled subbands; and decreasing a target data rate for the selected mobile station by the data rate computed for the allocated subband.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.55769
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15186407', '15719454', '13888057', '14010771', '11535702']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5193821091423645
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4833815510024239
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5157820533283705
- Mean Citation Score: 173.15417
- Max Citation Score: 181.57074
- Similarity Product: 122.9188971485138

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