PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16056858
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["370", "331000"]

Abstract:
Simulating sector changes in an application module (AM) in a wireless communications system (WCS) to simulate site walks in the WCS. The AMs are wireless telecommunication circuitry wired or wirelessly associated with wireless communications system components in a WCS. In one embodiment, the AMs are configured to determine signal information (e.g., signal strength, power and/or quality) of live communications signals in a WCS. The measured signal strength values are then artificially changed to simulate a site walk in the WCS. For example, the signal strength of communication signals received by an AM from a particular sector can be artificially lowered so that the signal strength from a neighboring sector located further away from the AM appears to be stronger. In this manner, a site walk of the AM in the sectors in which communications signals are received by the AM in the WCS can be simulated.

Claim (Index 12):
A wireless communications system, comprising:\n a plurality of cables, the cables comprising a plurality of optical uplink communications media and a plurality of optical downlink communications media; a central unit configured to:\n receive a downlink communications signal from a communications system; \n distribute the downlink communications signal over at least one of the optical downlink communications media to a plurality of remote units; \n receive an uplink communications signal from the plurality of remote units over at least one of the optical uplink communications media; and \n transmit the uplink communications signal to the communications system; \n each remote unit among the plurality of remote units configured to:\n receive the downlink communications signal from the central unit over the at least one of the optical downlink communications media; \n transmit the downlink communications signal to at least one client device; \n receive the uplink communications signal from the at least one client device; and \n transmit the uplink communications signal to the central unit over the at least one of the optical uplink communications media; and \n at least one application module comprising:\n at least one communications interface configured to receive communications signals from a plurality of sectors; \n a meter configured to measure signal information of the received communications signals; and \n at least one processor configured to:\n execute an emulation application to artificially change the signal information of received communications signals from a first sector among the plurality of sectors; and \n execute a roaming application to:\n receive the artificially changed signal information of the received communications signals from the first sector; \n determine if the at least one application module is to leave or join a second sector among the plurality of sectors based on the received artificially changed signal information of the received communications signals from the first sector; and \n join the second sector among the plurality of sectors if the received artificially changed signal information of the received communications signals from the first sector is less than signal information of the second sector to simulate a site walk of the at least one application module from the first sector to the second sector.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11688
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15075414', '15807773', '15914111', '15332552', '15833238']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5602450236696856
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6352657476929221
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5677470960720093
- Mean Citation Score: 417.372916
- Max Citation Score: 608.7364
- Similarity Product: 553.1473671536921

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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