PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16178433
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["455", "434000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for announcing the expected delay period between when a wireless AP stops transmitting on a first channel and begins transmitting on a second channel. After the last beacon frame is send on an old channel, a delay is experienced between transmitting the last frame on the old channel and transmitting the first frame on the new channel, where the delay varies based on the implementation of the AP and any CAC that must be performed on the new channel before broadcasting. Therefore, embodiments of the present invention provide an expected channel switch time element, for example, in a beacon frame or probe response frame.

Claim (Index 8):
A device for advertising a channel switch time, the device comprising:\n a memory for storing data; and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and configured to execute instructions for performing a method for advertising a channel switch time, the method comprising:\n transmitting first data over a first wireless channel; \n broadcasting a channel switch announcement comprising a channel switch time element, wherein the channel switch announcement indicates that said device is to perform a channel switch to begin transmitting over a second wireless channel and an expected time delay of the channel switch; \n performing the channel switch from said first wireless channel to said second wireless channel; and \n after a time delay approximately equal to said expected time delay, transmitting second data over the second wireless channel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 43.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03333
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14878758', '15134253', '13191041', '14141214', '10288098']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7051995991376784
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4909441588032156
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6837740551042322
- Mean Citation Score: 233.61121000000003
- Max Citation Score: 237.87646
- Similarity Product: 178.66942116845607

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

Dataset: test