PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16039453
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["455", "418000"]

Abstract:
A communication apparatus determines a communication mode in a network in which the communication apparatus is to participate. If the communication apparatus determines that the communication mode is the infrastructure mode, it selects a client function. If the communication apparatus determines that the communication mode is the ad hoc mode, it selects a server function. The communication apparatus operates as an apparatus having the selected client function or server function.

Claim (Index 7):
A control method of a wireless communication apparatus that includes a communication unit configured to perform communication using a wireless LAN complying with the IEEE802.11 standard, wherein the communication unit is capable of performing an infrastructure mode, in which communication with a partner apparatus is performed via an access point operating as a relay node, and a direct communication mode, in which communication with a partner apparatus is performed not via an access point operating as the relay node, the method comprising:\n performing, in a case where the wireless communication apparatus performs wireless communication using the wireless LAN with the communication unit, a first determination of whether to perform the infrastructure mode or the direct communication mode; performing, in a case where it is determined in the first determination to perform the direct communication mode, a second determination of whether or not the wireless communication apparatus itself creates a wireless network used for communication in the direct communication mode; causing the wireless communication apparatus to operate as a DHCP server in a case where it is determined in the second determination that the wireless communication apparatus creates the wireless network; and causing the wireless communication apparatus to operate as a DHCP client in a case where it is determined in the second determination that the wireless communication apparatus does not create the wireless network.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.375
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14571853', '14526594', '13861035', '14257108', '14297303']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6946011014448785
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4925622586950527
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.674397217169896
- Mean Citation Score: 225.219004
- Max Citation Score: 233.50192
- Similarity Product: 171.55343480615616

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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