PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15906483
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["455", "431000"]

Abstract:
A terrestrial communications network for providing broadband internet access to aerial platforms is described. One set of embodiments describe systems and methods for assigning aerial platforms to cell sites, and imposing a network frequency reuse pattern over the assigned beams, such as to optimize a certain network performance metric. Another set of embodiments describe systems and methods to iteratively optimize the aerial platform to cell site beam assignment, and the associated network frequency reuse pattern, according to the specified network performance metric. In other embodiments, systems and methods are described for measuring exogenous interference, to be used in SINR estimation received from different cell sites at the aerial platform in order to choose the cell site from which highest data rate is received.

Claim (Index 1):
A system to provide broadband access to aerial platforms, comprising:\n a network of cell sites comprising communications equipment, comprising a cell site radio sub-system, and a cell site antenna sub-system configured to form at least one sector per cell site and at least one steerable beam per sector; a plurality of aerial platforms that each comprise an aerial platform radio sub-system, and an aerial platform antenna sub-system comprising of at least one antenna aperture with at least one steerable beam; a network control entity generating a cell site to aerial platform beam assignment whereby each aerial platform is assigned to one cell site beam; the cell sites forming a beam toward aerial platforms assigned to the said cell sites; and the network control entity to iteratively optimize the current aerial platform to cell site beam assignment, comprising:\n generating new candidate assignments by reassigning one aerial platform in the current assignment; \n computing the network data rate throughput performance metrics for the new candidate assignments; and \n replacing the current assignment by a candidate assignment with highest network performance metric if a candidate assignment has higher network performance than the current assignment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84722
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15897018', '14228640', '14284079', '14337149', '14516491']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7083086065521517
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5089106846958479
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6883688143665213
- Mean Citation Score: 247.843246
- Max Citation Score: 321.57925
- Similarity Product: 306.3936671255231

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

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