PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15988811
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["370", "252000"]

Abstract:
A method of estimating the proximity of a first device to a second device in a network causes the first device to perform a first measurement in a first period during which a control message broadcasted over the network instructs devices in the network to not transmit during the first period, wherein the second device disregards the control message and transmits a first signal during the first period which is measured by the first device during the first period, and forms a measure of the proximity of the first device to the second device in dependence on a strength of the first signal.

Claim (Index 12):
A device as claimed in  claim 9 , wherein the channel quality measurement is, in accordance with the wireless communications protocol, for detecting interference.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.52381
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15046198', '14607179', '13580023', '13038764', '13831131']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5740355772384026
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5264906574099455
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.569281085255557
- Mean Citation Score: 235.894988
- Max Citation Score: 345.44357
- Similarity Product: 242.7310756276113

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