PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15920267
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["370", "329000"]

Abstract:
In a WLAN, a device sets a first NAV to a bandwidth used by a signal from a second device. The device selects a channel that does not correspond to the bandwidth from among a plurality of channels when a predetermined condition is satisfied. The predetermined condition includes a condition that the first NAV is set. The device transmits a first frame on the selected channel.

Claim (Index 9):
A method implemented by a wireless communication device in a wireless local area network (WLAN), the method comprising:\n receiving a signal; determining a Basic Service Set (BSS) from which the signal was received; updating a conventional Network Allocation Vector (NAV) based on the signal in response to determining that the BSS from which the signal was received is an Overlapping BSS; receiving, from an access point, an initiate frame to initiate an uplink multi-user transmission; acquiring information representing whether the wireless communication device is to transmit an acknowledgement frame whose required duration for transmission completion is not larger than a predetermined value or other frame than the acknowledgement frame whose required duration for transmission completion is not larger than the predetermined value; determining a permissibility of transmission of a response frame for the initiate frame in the uplink multi-user transmission, based on the conventional NAV and the acquired information representing whether the wireless communication device is to transmit the acknowledgement frame whose required duration for transmission completion is not larger than the predetermined value or the other frame than the acknowledgement frame whose required duration for transmission completion is not larger than the predetermined value; and responsive to a determination that transmission of the response frame for the initiate frame in the uplink multi-user transmission is permissible, transmitting the response frame to the access point in the uplink multi-user transmission.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82051
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15612883', '14753582', '14790809', '15257074', '15508076']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5581572731366374
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6007627262795855
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5624178184509323
- Mean Citation Score: 390.586984
- Max Citation Score: 530.29285
- Similarity Product: 469.8355338337212

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

Dataset: test