PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16220960
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["370", "235000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods are disclosed for enabling a mesh network node to switch from a base station role to a user equipment role relative to a second mesh network node, and vice versa. By switching roles in this manner, the mesh network node may be able to benefit from increased uplink or downlink speed in the new role. This role reversal technique is particularly useful when using wireless protocols such as LTE that are asymmetric and allow differing throughput on uplink and downlink connections. Methods for determining whether to perform role reversal are disclosed, and methods for using role reversal in mesh networks comprising greater than two nodes are also disclosed.

Claim (Index 1):
A first base station comprising:\n a first radio transceiver configured to receive attach requests from a plurality of mobile devices using an asymmetric wireless protocol; a second radio transceiver configured to attach to a second base station as an associated mobile device of the second base station using the asymmetric wireless protocol to create an existing link; a subscriber identity card coupled to the second radio transceiver; and a processor configured to route requests for data from the plurality of mobile devices through the second radio transceiver, wherein the second base station provides gateway functionality for the first base station toward a core network, wherein the processor is further configured, if a desired uplink speed towards the core network exceeds an uplink speed of the existing link, to permit the second base station to attach to the first base station via the first radio transceiver as an associated mobile device of the first base station, and to reconfigure the second radio transceiver to detach from the second base station, thereby creating a new link and increasing available uplink speed from the first base station to the second base station relative to the uplink speed of the existing link, and wherein the first radio transceiver is configured to enable aggregation of a plurality of carrier bands for the new link.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.61644
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15202496', '14453365', '15334270', '14571250', '15686152']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5635686180490804
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5273676153002942
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5599485177742017
- Mean Citation Score: 256.35705199999995
- Max Citation Score: 364.61417
- Similarity Product: 356.2967187204957

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

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