PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16382588
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["455", "003010"]

Abstract:
A gain control circuit in a wireless distribution system (WDS) is provided. The gain control circuit generates a combined digital communications signal based on a number of received radio frequency (RF) communications signals. The combined digital communications signal has a digital amplitude(s) representing a summed analog power level(s) of the RF communications signals in a predefined number of binary bits. When the summed analog power level(s) exceeds a maximum analog power level represented by the digital amplitude(s) in the predefined number of binary bits, the gain control circuit determines a selected RF communications signal(s) causing the summed analog power level to exceed the maximum analog power level and attenuates the selected RF communications signal(s) to reduce the summed analog power level to below the maximum analog power level. As such, it is possible to achieve a calculated balance between performance, complexity, and cost in the gain control circuit.

Claim (Index 1):
A remote unit in a wireless distribution system (WDS) comprising a gain control circuit, the gain control circuit comprising:\n a plurality of radio frequency (RF) circuits configured to receive and amplify a plurality of RF communications signals, respectively; signal conversion circuitry comprising a plurality of RF signal inputs coupled to the plurality of RF circuits and a digital signal output, the signal conversion circuitry configured to:\n receive the plurality of RF communications signals via the plurality of RF signal inputs; \n generate a combined digital communications signal based on the plurality of RF communications signals, wherein the combined digital communications signal has a digital amplitude representing a summed analog power level of the plurality of RF communications signals in a predefined number of binary bits; and \n provide the combined digital communications signal to the digital signal output; and \n a digital signal processing circuit coupled to the digital signal output, the digital signal processing circuit configured to:\n determine whether the summed analog power level exceeds a maximum analog power level represented by the digital amplitude in the predefined number of binary bits; and \n in response to determining that the summed analog power level exceeds the maximum analog power level:\n determine a selected RF circuit among the plurality of RF circuits that generates a selected RF communications signal among the plurality of RF communications signals at a selected analog power level causing the summed analog power level to exceed the maximum analog power level; and \n control the selected RF circuit to attenuate the selected RF communications signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.63235
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15920778', '16246850', '15926364', '16195764', '15922217']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7146057944538344
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5700289643793459
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7001481114463856
- Mean Citation Score: 355.230636
- Max Citation Score: 451.30417
- Similarity Product: 437.45366544074295

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