PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15896544
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["370", "235000"]

Abstract:
A method for cellular network operation includes establishing a transport network communication link in a cellular network between first and second infrastructure cellular entities. A first transport link control function is established within the first infrastructure cellular entity, and a pair transport link control function is established within the second infrastructure cellular entity. Data packets are transmitted through the first and second transport link control functions on the transport network communication link while allocating sequence numbers by the first transport link control function to the transmitted data packets. The pair transport link control function detects, based on the sequence numbers, a loss of a data packet transmitted by the first transport link control function and transmits a status report to the first transport link control function. The forwarding of user traffic from the first infrastructure cellular entity to the second infrastructure cellular entity is controlled responsively to the reports.

Claim (Index 18):
A distributed unit for use in a base station in a cellular network, the distributed unit comprising:\n a radio interface configured to communicate over a wireless link with user equipment in a cellular network; a network interface configured to communicate with a transport network of the cellular network; and a processor, which is configured to establish a transport network communication link via the transport network with a central unit of the base station for transmitting data packets containing user traffic, and to establish a first transport link control function within the distributed unit, for interaction with a pair transport link control function within the central unit, wherein the first transport link control function is configured to transmit data packets through the first transport link control function to the pair transport link control function through the transport network communication link while allocating sequence to the transmitted data packets, whereby the pair transport link control function detects, based on the sequence numbers, a loss of a data packet transmitted by the first transport link control function and transmits a status report indicative of the loss of the data packet to the first transport link control function, and wherein at least one of the first and second transport link control functions transmits reports to a central controller or coordinator of the base station regarding a behavior of the transport network communication link, and forwarding of user traffic from the distributed unit to the central unit is controlled responsively to the reports.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66102
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15673287', '14890407', '15306057', '15306311', '15300725']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.542939679390025
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4960500083137702
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5382507122823995
- Mean Citation Score: 211.889656
- Max Citation Score: 221.88545
- Similarity Product: 145.30454497392176

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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