PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15962815
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["370", "338000"]

Abstract:
Coordination and synchronization is performed between two or more wireless network managers (e.g., access points (APs)). A first wireless network manager supports first communications with first other wireless communication devices, and a second wireless network manager supports second communications with those first and/or second other wirelessly case devices. The first and second wireless network managers also support communications with one another to coordinate the first and second communications supported with the first and/or second other wireless communication devices. Examples of coordination include selection of which other wireless communication devices are serviced or in communication with which of the first and second wireless network managers, selection of operational parameters (e.g., modulation coding set (MCS), beamforming, frequency band assignment, channel assignment, scheduling information, transmit power, etc.) for the first and second wireless communication devices, synchronization to a common clock (e.g., using timing synchronization function (TSF)).

Claim (Index 1):
A wireless communication device comprising:\n a communication interface; and processing circuitry that is coupled to the communication interface, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to:\n transmit a first sounding frame, via the communication interface, to a first other wireless communication device and a second other wireless communication device within a first wireless network that is managed by the wireless communication device; \n receive, in response to the first sounding frame and via the communication interface, first channel estimation information from the first other wireless communication device and second channel estimation information from the second other wireless communication device; \n support, via the communication interface, a management frame exchange with a third other wireless communication device that is configured to operate as a second network manager within a second wireless network to select first beamforming to be used by the wireless communication device within the first wireless network and second beamforming to be used by the third other wireless communication device within the second wireless network based on the first channel estimation information, the second channel estimation information, and other channel estimation information received by the third other wireless communication device from at least one other wireless communication device within the second wireless network; and \n support, via the communication interface, beamformed communications with at least one of the first other wireless communication device or the second other wireless communication device within the first wireless network in coordination with other beamformed communications supported by the third other wireless communication device and the at least one other wireless communication device within the second wireless network.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26316
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14462659', '14252646', '15142431', '15054778', '15478640']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5768481589042235
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.497006027453454
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5688639457591466
- Mean Citation Score: 274.542114
- Max Citation Score: 278.42874
- Similarity Product: 226.24595452004672

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