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 9):
A first device for estimating the proximity of the first device to a second device, the first and second devices capable of communicating according to a wireless communications protocol, the first device comprising:\n a controller configured to cause the first device to perform a channel quality measurement during a first period of time; a transceiver configured to receive a signal from the second device during at least a portion of the first period of time, the received signal having a power modulated according to a predefined pattern; and a proximity estimator configured to form a measure of the proximity of the first device to the second device by analysing the power of the received signal so as to detect the predefined pattern.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.52381
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15046198', '14607179', '13580023', '13038764', '13831131']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5444762485231361
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5224473445300075
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5422733581238233
- Mean Citation Score: 235.894988
- Max Citation Score: 345.44357
- Similarity Product: 272.2159941502333

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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