PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15986318
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["370", "316000"]

Abstract:
A geolocation method and system for locating the source of interference to a high throughput satellite. The method involves determining relative power level differences between interference signals received by the victim spot beam and co-colored nearby spot beams on the same satellite. Using beam pattern data, the relative power levels for a pair of beams determines contour lines of possible location the correspond to the relative power difference in the signals received by the two beams in the pair. A point of intersection of contour lines from multiple pairs of spot beams indicates the location of the source of interference.

Claim (Index 15):
A method to locate an uplink interference source using a high throughput satellite having a plurality of co-colored spot beam antennas to receive uplink signals and with each spot beam having a respective geographic coverage area, the respective coverage areas of the co-colored spot beam antennas being arranged in a grid of non-overlapping areas in a color re-use pattern, the high throughput satellite to receive and digitally channelize signals from each co-colored spot beam antenna to produce respective digitized spectrum, to detect an interference carrier in one of the digitized spectrums, the method comprising:\n receiving, from the high throughput satellite at a ground network operations center via a communications link, data regarding power levels of the interference carrier in three or more of the digitized spectrums; determining, from the data regarding power levels, relative power levels between the interference carrier in said one of the digitized spectrums and a lower power interference carrier at a same frequency in two or more of the other respective digitized spectrums; for each of the relative power levels, determining contour lines of geographic location based on that relative power level; and identifying a geographical location of the uplink interference source based on an intersection between two or more of the contour lines.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84211
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14588322', '11246288', '10000799', '14118684', '14180402']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5749070145303045
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4624415500087431
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5636604680781483
- Mean Citation Score: 152.85988999999995
- Max Citation Score: 166.54263
- Similarity Product: 128.57482394725977

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

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