PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16162922
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["370", "329000"]

Abstract:
A method is shown for allocating a plurality of channels to a plurality of radio nodes (RNs) in a radio access network (RAN). In accordance with the method, an initial RN is selected from among the plurality of RNs. A first of the plurality of channels is assigned to the initial RN. The first channel is selected such that external interference experienced by the initial RN from sources other than the RAN on the first channel is minimized. A second RN is selected from among the plurality of RNs. A second of the plurality of channels is assigned to the second RN. The second channel is selected such that a metric reflective of an information carrying capacity of the RNs that have already been assigned one of the plurality of channels is maximized. The assigned channels are allocated to the respective RNs to which they have been assigned.

Claim (Index 13):
A method of allocating a plurality of channels to a plurality of radio nodes (RNs) using a centralized controller operable in a network, the centralized controller comprising: one or more processors; a network interface operatively coupled to the one or more processors and arranged for bidirectional communications with a plurality of radio nodes (RNs); and memory storing computer-readable instructions operatively coupled to the one more processors, the method comprising:\n (i) selecting an individual RN from among a set of unassigned RNs in the plurality of RNs; (ii) selecting a first channel of the plurality of channels to be assigned to the individual RN, the first channel being selected such that internal interference caused by the individual RN on other RNs that are assigned the first channel plus external interference experienced by the individual RN on the first channel is minimized; (iii) repeating steps (i) and (ii) for each of the RNs in the unassigned set of RNs to obtain a first assignment of the plurality of channels, wherein the individual RNs are selected in a first sequence; (iv) repeating steps (i)-(iii) k times, k being an integer greater than 2, to obtain k assignments of the plurality of channels, the individual RNs being selected in a different sequence during each repetition; and (v) allocating one of the k assignments of the plurality of channels to the RNs in the plurality of RNs, the allocated one of the k assignments being the assignment that maximizes an information carrying capacity of the RNs.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.55556
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15433352', '14075516', '15437552', '14075509', '15081311']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5517249470223913
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5789299357897941
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5544454458991316
- Mean Citation Score: 312.355494
- Max Citation Score: 494.58405
- Similarity Product: 427.1019807837546

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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