PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15969108
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["455", "562100"]

Abstract:
The present invention is a method and system for supporting a beamforming antenna system in a mobile broadband communication network with an improved beam pattern, beam sweep pattern, pilot channel design with feedback and reporting rules, and control signaling design. Specifically, the improved beam pattern includes a method of supporting wireless communications in a wireless network forming at least two spatial beams within a cell segment where the at least two spatial beams are associated with different power levels, and separately, where at least two spatial beams can be moved across the cell segment according to a unique sweep pattern. The pilot channel design improves network bandwidth performance and improves user mobility tracking. Feedback and reporting rules can be established using a particular field designator, CQI, in the preferred embodiment.

Claim (Index 25):
A method for operating a receiver, the method comprising:\n receiving pilot channel indicator signals from an access node corresponding to a plurality of spatial beams, wherein each of the pilot channel indicator signals is transmitted in a beamformed fashion on one of the plurality of spatial beams; generating a feedback signal, wherein:\n in a first mode, said feedback signal includes a first beam index, wherein the first beam index corresponds to the pilot channel indicator signal of the first beam among the plurality of spatial beams; and \n in a second mode, said feedback signal includes two beam indices corresponding to two pilot channel indicator signals of two spatial beams among the plurality of spatial beams, wherein the second mode facilitates transmission to the receiver on the two spatial beams simultaneously, wherein the first and second modes are switched based on layer 3 signalling; \n transmitting said feedback signal to the access node a from the first receiver according to one for the first and second modes; receiving a transmission from the access node, the transmission at least in part based on an analysis of the feedback signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84416
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15590151', '14289723', '12990989', '12997061', '15894154']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7180335706411415
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5633167059715738
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7025618841741847
- Mean Citation Score: 348.58411800000016
- Max Citation Score: 432.6908
- Similarity Product: 378.1240783554554

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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