PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16046839
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["370", "329000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for using communications channels corresponding to frequency bands subject to cellular network, e.g., LTE, interference and/or other interference are described. The methods are well suited for use of cable networks where communications over a coax cable or via cable device may be subject to LTE interference. In various embodiments data traffic is classified based on whether the traffic corresponds to a protocol that supports a retry communications mechanism in the event of a communication error, the type of traffic data and/or the priority of the traffic data. In some embodiments data being communicated using a protocol which supports a retry mechanism are routed over channels subject to interference even if, in some cases, the packets correspond to data which has a higher priority or QoS requirements than packets, e.g., best effort packets, which are transmitted using a protocol that does not support a packet retry mechanism.

Claim (Index 1):
A communications method comprising:\n operating a traffic classifier in a communications device of a communications network, to classify traffic based on at least whether the traffic is being communicated using a retry mechanism in the event of a communication error, the traffic classifier classifying traffic communicated using a communications protocol which supports a retry communications mechanism as being traffic of a first type and traffic communicated using a communications protocol which does not support a communications retry mechanism as traffic of a second type; and operating a traffic to channel assignment device, located in the communications device, to assign classified traffic of the first and second types to communications channels based on traffic classification, said assigning including assigning at least some traffic of said first type to communications channels in a first group of communications channels, said first group of communications channels corresponding to frequencies which are subject to wireless communications device interference, said assigning classified traffic further including assigning traffic of the second type to one or more communications channels in a second group of communications channels, said second group of communications channels corresponding to frequencies that are not subject to wireless communications device interference.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90588
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14530324', '15332884', '10735945', '10175330', '12488124']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5012422700167131
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5469412535436052
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5058121683694023
- Mean Citation Score: 252.014648
- Max Citation Score: 391.63013
- Similarity Product: 363.0723346517135

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