PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15748139
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["455", "003030"]

Abstract:
Embodiments provide in-flight configuration of satellite pathways to flexibly service terra-link and cross-link traffic in a constellation of non-processed satellites, for example, to facilitate flexible forward-channel and return-channel capacity in a satellite communications system. For example, each satellite in the constellation can include one or more dynamically configurable pathway, and switching and/or beamforming can be used to configure each pathway to be a forward-channel pathway or a return-channel pathway in each of a number of timeslots according to a pathway configuration schedule. At least some of the pathways can be further selectively configured, in each timeslot, to carry “terra-link” traffic to and/or from terrestrial terminals and “cross-link” traffic to and/or from one or more other satellites of the constellation.

Claim (Index 24):
The system of  claim 22 , wherein the pathway configuration system comprises a transmit beamforming network coupled between the phased array antenna and a transmit side of the pathway, the transmit beamforming network operable to adjust beam weightings to form a signal coupling, in each of the plurality of timeslots, between a transmit beam and the transmit side of the pathway, thereby sequentially configuring the pathway in each of the plurality of timeslots to form the signal path between the selected pair of spot beams according to the pathway configuration schedule, one of the selected pair of spot beams being the transmit beam.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 85.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03077
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13666112', '14887147', '15486161', '13098334', '13098213']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7301253515744159
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5071204369622692
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7078248601132013
- Mean Citation Score: 259.142518
- Max Citation Score: 278.77087
- Similarity Product: 203.71602388962987

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

Dataset: test