PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16061779
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["370", "230000"]

Abstract:
A method to enable network slice aware access control in a wireless communication system. In some embodiments, the method includes adding network slice configuration information (NSCI) to the system information (SI) (e.g., System Information Block (SIB)) that is broadcast over the air interface (e.g. the LTE/NX air interface).

Claim (Index 46):
A wireless communication device (WCD) for discovering whether a network slice that the WCD is authorized to use is supported and not barred, the WCD comprising:\n processing circuitry; memory containing instructions executable by the processing circuitry whereby the WCD is operative to:\n search for system information that is being broadcast by an node element (NE) serving an area in which the WCD is located; \n receive the system information; \n locate network slice configuration information (NSCI) within the system information, wherein the NSCI identifies at least one of:\n i) a set of supported network slices and the barring status of each supported network slice; and \n ii) a set of supported network slice groups and the barring status of each supported network slice group; and \n \n determine, based on the broadcast NSCI and locally stored configuration information identifying authorized network slices, whether any of the authorized network slices are supported and not barred.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.53659
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16348679', '12759347', '15695411', '12759339', '15600145']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5244485992293871
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4748394869323629
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5194876879996848
- Mean Citation Score: 166.242424
- Max Citation Score: 168.29048
- Similarity Product: 120.01066237270358

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