PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16052098
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["455", "449000"]

Abstract:
A method for assigning downlink transmit power levels to radio nodes (RNs) in a small cell radio access network (RAN) includes assigning initial power levels to the RNs. For each cell, first events are counted indicating that UEs receiving a signal from their serving cells with a signal strength below a specified value have entered a coverage hole. For each cell, second events are counted indicating that UEs have re-established a previous connection on one of the cells. For each pair of cells, a coverage hole is identified between them if the number of first events for one cell exceeds a threshold and a number of second events or re-establishment of a previous connection on the other cell exceeds another threshold. For each identified coverage hole, the downlink transmit power level is increased of at least one RN in the pair of cells between which the coverage hole is identified.

Claim (Index 16):
A method of assigning downlink transmit power levels to a plurality of radio nodes (RNs) in a RAN, comprising:\n assigning initial power levels to at least one of the RNs in the RAN; receiving transfer requests from a macro network each requesting a hand-in of a UE from the macro network to one of the cells, each of the transfer requests including UE history infonnation for the UE being handed-in; for any pair of cells in the RAN, inferring that a coverage hole exists between the pair of cells if the UE history information received by one of the cells in the pair for a given UE indicates that the given UE was connected to the other cell in the pair prior to the transfer of the given UE to the macro cell; counting a number of received transfer requests from which existence of a coverage hole is inferred between each pair of cells in the RAN and, if the number for a particular pair exceeds a threshold value, adjusting upward the downlink transmit power of at least one of the RNs associated with the cells in the pair, wherein the RAN is selected from the group including a small cell RAN, a macro network, and a combination of a small cell RAN and a macro network, and the transfer requests conform to the S1 application protocol (S1AP).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11688
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15043691', '15069781', '15081311', '14075509', '14075516']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6644116201709255
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5937517726274437
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6573456354165773
- Mean Citation Score: 306.736648
- Max Citation Score: 490.14746
- Similarity Product: 468.5154863081228

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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