PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16022288
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["455", "078000"]

Abstract:
Wireless communication devices (UEs) may include multiple receive (RX) chains and associated antennas, and at least one transmit (TX) chain co-located with one of the RX chains. The UE may track instant fading of the antenna gain(s) during reception of packets from an associated access point (AP) device to which the UE intends to transmit packets. The UE may also track long term antenna gain(s), using any packets received at the multiple RX chains within the UE. At a switching occasion, a decision is made by the UE whether to switch antennas. If the instant fading detection is based on packets received no later than a specified time period prior to the switching occasion, then the UE may make the switching decision based on the results of the instant fading tracking. Otherwise, the UE may make the switching decision based on the results of the long term antenna gain tracking.

Claim (Index 1):
A wireless communication device comprising:\n a first antenna and a second antenna, configured to transmit and receive signals; a first receive chain and a second receive chain, communicatively coupled to the first antenna and the second antenna for receiving packets; a transmit chain communicatively coupled to the first antenna and the second antenna for transmitting packets; and a processing element configured to:\n track a respective performance measure of the first antenna and the second antenna during operation of the first receive chain and the second receive chain; and \n select, at a switching occasion, one of the first antenna or the second antenna for transmitting packets via the transmit chain, based at least in part on the tracked respective performance measure of the first antenna and the second antenna.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.1875
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15707246', '14871756', '14871794', '14560635', '14525983']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6946312009525587
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4842089260329646
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6735889734605993
- Mean Citation Score: 256.078938
- Max Citation Score: 319.17383
- Similarity Product: 315.5502824817407

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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