PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15968329
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["370", "329000"]

Abstract:
A wireless communication apparatus/system/method utilizing directional transmission over a mmW band performing transmission of signals on a sub-6 GHz band that aids scanning for mmW mesh network discovery. A new node sends an assistance request on the sub-6 GHz band. The network node responds to the assistance request by sending an assistance response on the sub-6 GHz band. Upon exchanging the discovery assistance request and response with the network node on the sub-6 GHz band, the new node switches to the mmW band to discover neighbor(s). The network node upon exchanging the discovery assistance request and response on the sub-6 GHz band switches to mmW band to discover new nodes. Implementations can provide assistance directly or in response to cooperation between network stations.

Claim (Index 17):
A method of wireless communication in a network, comprising:\n (a) wirelessly communicating between wireless nodes joined in a network by transmitting over a first communications band which is configured for directional transmission and/or reception; (b) wirelessly communicating with new nodes attempting to join the network utilizing communications over a second wireless communications band; (c) transmitting a message containing a discovery assistance request, and associated fields of information for aiding the discovery process, over said second wireless communications band for requesting discovery assistance on the first communications band by a new node attempting to join the network; (d) receiving said discovery assistance request by a network node which has already joined the network, and responding by transmitting a discovery assistance response, and associated fields of information for aiding the discovery process, over the second communications band to the new node; (e) switching to using directional communications on said first communications band and generating directional transmissions according to information received in said associated fields of information from the discovery assistance request and response exchange to discover neighboring wireless communication stations in response to a beamforming process.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21667
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15828687', '15676257', '15919465', '15921397', '15819991']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6434020736618056
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5832982074478268
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6373916870404077
- Mean Citation Score: 418.092188
- Max Citation Score: 543.26825
- Similarity Product: 415.2000999990403

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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