PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16014824
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["370", "252000"]

Abstract:
A method for evaluating performance of a sensor network. The method includes selecting, a sensor distribution pattern for a geographical region and determining a location for a base station. A plurality of sensor clusters are generated, each sensor cluster being formed by one of a first and second grouping mechanism. Further, the method allocates, for each sensor a time-slot within a time-frame to transmit a data packet from the sensor to the base station, and evaluates the performance of the first grouping mechanism and the second grouping mechanism for the selected sensor distribution pattern and base station location, by computing at least a ratio of delivered data packets to the base station to a total energy consumption, and a first delay and a second delay incurred by each data packet.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of operating a computer system to determine the performance of a wireless sensor network, the method comprising:\n selecting, a sensor distribution pattern for a geographical region where the sensors are to be deployed; determining a location for a base station in the geographical region; generating by circuitry, a plurality of sensor clusters, each sensor cluster of the plurality of sensor clusters being formed by one of a first grouping mechanism and a second grouping mechanism, the first grouping mechanism forming the sensor cluster based on a strength of a signal transmitted by each sensor, that is received by the base station, and the second grouping mechanism forming the sensor cluster based on a location of the sensor and an energy level of the sensor; allocating, for each sensor included in the generated sensor cluster, a time-slot within a time-frame corresponding to the sensor cluster, the time-slot being utilized for transmitting a data packet from the sensor to the base station; and evaluating by the circuitry, the performance of the first grouping mechanism and the second grouping mechanism for the selected sensor distribution pattern and base station location, by computing at least a ratio of delivered data packets to the base station to a total energy consumption, and a first delay and a second delay incurred by each data packet, wherein the first delay is an average intra-cluster delay of from 0.2 to 1 second and the second delay is an average inter-cluster delay of less than 20 seconds, wherein the sensor distribution pattern is a grid pattern wherein the sensors are disposed in a manner such that a distance between adjacent sensors is a predetermined distance, in the normal distribution pattern a principle number of sensors are disposed in the center of the geographical region, and in the exponential distribution pattern, a principle number of sensors are disposed in the corner of the geographical region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31148
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15059370', '16014893', '15716100', '15741533', '15892143']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5142557075344372
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5972537792210765
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5225555147031011
- Mean Citation Score: 323.423758
- Max Citation Score: 494.0374
- Similarity Product: 490.4410177575946

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