PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16164405
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["370", "329000"]

Abstract:
A communication protocol overlay that governs wireless data communications between an access point and subscribers. The communication protocol overlay includes a repeating pattern of superframes, each superframe including frames. Each frame includes a beacon emitted by an access point in a downlink communication to the subscribers at a beginning of the frame. Each frame further includes communication slots following the beacon. Each of the communication slots is uniquely assigned to one of the subscribers, permitting the subscriber to perform an uplink communication to the access point, within the communication slot. The beacon is precisely timed, and each of the communication slots follows the beacon with a specified temporal offset. A single superframe of the repeating pattern of superframes serves all subscribers by providing at least one communication slot to each of the subscribers.

Claim (Index 32):
A method for synchronized transmission of data using an Internet of Things (IoT) protocol augmented with a communication protocol overlay, the communication protocol overlay comprising a repeating pattern of superframes, each superframe comprising a plurality of frames, the method comprising:\n transmitting, in each frame of the plurality of frames, a beacon emitted by an access point in a downlink communication to a plurality of sensors; transmitting a plurality of communication slots following the beacon, wherein each of the communication slots is uniquely assigned to one of the plurality of sensors; providing at least one portion of a firmware over the air (FOTA) update to the plurality of sensors, within each of the corresponding communication slots assigned to each of the plurality of sensors; and receiving, by the plurality of sensors, the beacon, wherein the beacon establishes a time base, wherein a single superframe of the repeating pattern of superframes serves all sensors of the plurality of sensors by providing at least one communication slot to each of the sensors.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15799348', '16164353', '15799302', '15799178', '16163080']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.555174145256115
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4946211217382714
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5491188429043307
- Mean Citation Score: 233.944088
- Max Citation Score: 245.29086
- Similarity Product: 177.2346854335856

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

Dataset: test