PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15900135
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["340", "005720"]

Abstract:
Method and apparatus are disclosed for dead zone mitigation for a passive entry system of a vehicle. An example vehicle includes antenna modules to measure signal strengths of broadcasts from a mobile device. The example vehicle also includes a wireless module to, when the mobile device is in a dead zone, generate first and second predictors and enable passive entry when the first and second predictors match and indicate that the mobile device is in a passive entry zone, and a sensor detects a user. The example vehicle also includes a body control module to unlock a door when passive entry is enabled.

Claim (Index 11):
A method comprising:\n determining, with antenna modules of a vehicle, signal strength measurements of broadcasts from a mobile device; upon determining that the mobile device is in a dead zone near the vehicle, generating multiple predictors that are estimated locations of the mobile device within the dead zone with a wireless module that includes a processor and memory, wherein the dead zone is an area within a theoretical communication range of the antenna modules where the wireless module cannot determine the location of the mobile device based on the signal strengths measurements of the broadcasts from the mobile device; enabling, with the wireless module, passive entry when the multiple predictors match within a passive entry zone near a door of the vehicle; and unlocking, with a body control module, the door when passive entry is enabled and a sensor detects a user is touching a handle of the door.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03704
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15273548', '15823084', '15639039', '14880377', '15290120']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6535321564340562
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.487167242351718
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6368956650258224
- Mean Citation Score: 149.180678
- Max Citation Score: 168.40965
- Similarity Product: 117.511562764889

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