PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16413778
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["370", "329000"]

Abstract:
A wireless communication device (alternatively, device, WDEV, etc.) includes a processing circuitry configured to support communications with other WDEV(s) and to generate and process signals for such communications. In some examples, the device includes a communication interface and a processing circuitry, among other possible circuitries, components, elements, etc. to support communications with other WDEV(s) and to generate and process signals for such communications. A WDEV selects a resource unit (RU) from an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) sub-carrier plan for use in supporting communications with another WDEV. The WDEV transmits a signal to the other WDEV that includes information that specifies the RU that is selected from the OFDMA sub-carrier plan and then supports communications with the other WDEV using the RU that is selected from the OFDMA sub-carrier plan. The OFDMA sub-carrier plan includes multiple OFDMA sub-carrier sub-plans of different sized RUs and null sub-carriers.

Claim (Index 3):
The wireless communication device of  claim 1 , wherein:\n within the first OFDMA sub-carrier sub-plan, the first plurality of null sub-carriers of the first OFDMA sub-carrier sub-plan is interspersed among the first plurality of RUs of the first sub-carrier size, a first null sub-carrier of the first plurality of null sub-carriers is located at a beginning of the plurality of OFDMA sub-carriers, a second null sub-carrier of the first plurality of null sub-carriers is located at an end of the plurality of OFDMA sub-carriers, and at least one null sub-carrier of the first plurality of null sub-carriers is located between two RUs of the first plurality of RUs of the first sub-carrier size; within the second OFDMA sub-carrier sub-plan, the second plurality of null sub-carriers is interspersed among the second plurality of RUs of the second sub-carrier size, wherein a first null sub-carrier of the second plurality of null sub-carriers is located at the beginning of the plurality of OFDMA sub-carriers, a second null sub-carrier of the second plurality of null sub-carriers is located at the end of the plurality of OFDMA sub-carriers, at least one null sub-carrier of the second plurality of null sub-carriers is located between two RUs of the second plurality of RUs of the second sub-carrier size, and the second plurality of null sub-carriers includes a same number of null sub-carriers as the first plurality of null sub-carriers; and wherein the OFDMA sub-carrier plan is further characterized by: a third OFDMA sub-carrier sub-plan that includes a third plurality of RUs of a third sub-carrier size that is greater than the second sub-carrier size and a third plurality of null sub-carriers that are distributed across the plurality of OFDMA sub-carriers, the third plurality of null sub-carriers is interspersed among the third plurality of RUs of the third sub-carrier size that is greater than the second sub-carrier size, and the third plurality of null sub-carriers includes fewer null sub-carriers than the first plurality of null sub-carriers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35135
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15983225', '15142283', '15142431', '15895261', '16271284']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6830299187687566
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5992719836830546
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6746541252601865
- Mean Citation Score: 481.529128
- Max Citation Score: 515.4186
- Similarity Product: 508.1720497160912

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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