PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15875632
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["370", "329000"]

Abstract:
A method for use in a IEEE 802.11 device, comprising: wirelessly connecting, by the device, to a gateway that is part of a wireless local area network (WLAN), the gateway configured to operate as an access point (AP) for the WLAN and bridge the WLAN to the Internet; receiving, by the device from the gateway, an announcement message including a network identifier (NI) of a subnetwork of the WLAN, the subnetwork including the gateway and a first node that is also configured to operate as an AP for the WLAN; transmitting, by the device to the gateway, a request message to join the subnetwork; receiving, by the device from the gateway, a response message including a confidential credential for connecting to the subnetwork; establishing a first connection to the first node based on the confidential credential and the NI and beginning to operate as an AP for the WLAN.

Claim (Index 20):
The apparatus of  claim 11 , wherein the announcement message includes an identifier of a current configuration of the subnetwork.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.73016
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14453634', '15830628', '14778780', '10837124', '13151959']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.558364043538309
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4797138796650529
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5504990271509835
- Mean Citation Score: 176.176172
- Max Citation Score: 189.42345
- Similarity Product: 139.309923775059

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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