PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15925524
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["455", "012100"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods are described for paired-beam satellite communications in a flexible satellite architecture. Embodiments include one or more “bent pipe” satellites having multiple transponders for servicing a number of spot beams. Implementations include novel types of paired-beam transponders that communicatively couple gateway terminals and user terminals in different spot beams. Some implementations also include loopback transponders that communicatively couple gateway terminals and user terminals in the same spot beam. The transponders can use similar components, can provide for flexible forward-link and return-link spectrum allocation, and/or can provide other features. Certain embodiments further include support for utility gateway terminal service and/or redundancy (e.g., active spares) for one or more active components.

Claim (Index 7):
The method of  claim 5 , wherein:\n the one or more feeds includes a first feed having a first spot beam coverage area and a second feed having a second spot beam coverage area; the gateway terminal is located in the first spot beam coverage area of the first feed; the plurality of user terminals are located in the second spot beam coverage area of the second feed of the satellite; the receiving the first gateway uplink signal is via the first feed, and the receiving the first user uplink signal is via the second feed; the combining is via an input subsystem of the satellite transponder coupled to the first and second feeds to generate the first combined uplink signal; and the transmitting the first combined downlink signal to the first gateway terminal is via the first feed and the transmitting the first combined downlink signal to the plurality of user terminals is via the second feed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.63158
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14952722', '15432491', '13843333', '15443356', '13902737']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7459568797054515
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5382560910343253
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7251868008383389
- Mean Citation Score: 301.203498
- Max Citation Score: 376.9321
- Similarity Product: 318.36584665344355

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