PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16408921
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["375", "224000"]

Abstract:
This disclosure describes example antenna monitoring systems and methods that can include, among other things, a transmitter near each of the antennas in a distributed antenna system (DAS). The transmitter can transmit on a certain frequency or channel corresponding to that antenna, so that the various transmitters in the DAS each transmit on different frequencies. These frequencies can be detected by a receiver and can be processed to determine whether a signal at any frequency or channel expected to be received is missing. If any expected signal is missing for any frequency or channel, the receiver can infer that the antenna or a component associated with the antenna (such as cabling) may have failed. The receiver can then output an indication or notification that may be accessed by maintenance personnel and/or emergency personnel to enable them to identify and repair the non-functioning antenna or component.

Claim (Index 21):
An antenna monitoring system comprising:\n a plurality of transmitters, each of the transmitters configured to be located in proximity to an antenna of a plurality of antennas, the plurality of transmitters configured to transmit a first plurality of signals to the plurality of antennas on a plurality of channels, each transmitter of the plurality of transmitters configured to transmit a signal of the first plurality of signals on a particular channel of the plurality of channels; and a receiver configured to be connected over a first wired connection to a coupler, the coupler connected to the plurality of antennas over a second wired connection, the receiver comprising hardware circuitry configured to:\n receive over the first and second wired connections a second plurality of signals from the plurality of antennas, the second plurality of signals transmitted in response to the transmission of the first plurality of signals; \n in response to not receiving a signal associated with a channel of the plurality of channels, determine that no second signal has been received from an antenna of the plurality of antennas associated with a transmitter configured to transmit a signal of the first plurality of signals on the channel; and \n in response to the determination, output an indication of a failure of the antenna.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83721
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16122629', '12697289', '15878531', '15622871', '16166415']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4246072864930501
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5363975879261158
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4357863166363566
- Mean Citation Score: 206.91778600000004
- Max Citation Score: 374.81183
- Similarity Product: 340.42976050944804

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

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