PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16302495
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["375", "262000"]

Abstract:
There is disclosed a method for operating a network node in a wireless communication network. The method comprises obtaining a first precoder and/or first beam pattern indication, and a second precoder and/or second beam pattern indication, the first precoder and/or first beam pattern indication being associated to beamformed transmission of first signaling utilizing a first antenna subarray, and the second precoder and/or second beam pattern indication being associated to beamformed transmission of second signaling utilizing a second antenna subarray. A first phase center is associated to the first signaling and a second phase center is associated to the second signaling, the first phase center and the second phase center having a phase center difference. The method further comprises transmitting the first signaling on a first expanded antenna subarray utilising a first expanded precoder, and transmitting the second signaling on a second expanded antenna subarray utilising a second expanded precoder. A first expanded phase center is associated to the 15 transmitted first signaling, and a second expanded phase center is associated to the transmitted second signaling, the first expanded phase center and the second phase center having an expanded phase center difference; wherein the phase center difference corresponds to the expanded phase center difference.

Claim (Index 18):
A network node for a wireless communication network, the network node comprising:\n radio circuitry configured for signal transmission from one or more antenna arrays or subarrays; and processing circuitry configured to:\n obtain a first precoder and/or first beam pattern indication, and a second precoder and/or second beam pattern indication, the first precoder and/or first beam pattern indication being associated with beamformed transmission of first signaling utilizing a first antenna subarray, and the second precoder and/or second beam pattern indication being associated with beamformed transmission of second signaling utilizing a second antenna subarray, wherein a first phase center is associated with the first signaling and a second phase center is associated with the second signaling, the first phase center and the second phase center having a phase center difference; \n transmit, via control of the radio circuitry, the first signaling on a first expanded antenna subarray utilizing a first expanded precoder, and transmit, via control of the radio circuitry, the second signaling on a second expanded antenna subarray utilizing a second expanded precoder, wherein a first expanded phase center is associated with the transmitted first signaling, and a second expanded phase center is associated with the transmitted second signaling, the first expanded phase center and the second expanded phase center defining an expanded phase center difference, and wherein the phase center difference corresponds to the expanded phase center difference.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 4.15385
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16303312', '15105648', '15101276', '15572864', '15618815']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4950139741276224
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5003114408648104
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4955437208013412
- Mean Citation Score: 245.264926
- Max Citation Score: 283.74533
- Similarity Product: 235.0932979294992

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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