PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15971004
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["370", "351000"]

Abstract:
A network device receives a data packet sourced from a root of a tree-based topology and including a data structure identifying transmitted data packets transmitted by the root; in response to determining one or more absent transmitted data packets based on the data structure, the network device starts a deferred transmission timer requiring the network device to wait a first half of a selected minimum contention interval before attempting transmission to a parent at a randomized position within a second half of the selected minimum contention interval, the selected minimum contention interval based on the distance to the root and at least twice that of the parent; the network device selectively transmits a control message to the parent to request the absent transmitted data packets only if, upon reaching the corresponding randomized position of the deferred transmission timer, the network device has not received the absent transmitted data packets.

Claim (Index 15):
One or more non-transitory tangible media encoded with logic for execution by a machine and when executed by the machine operable for:\n receiving, by the machine implemented as a network device via a tree-based topology in a data network, a data packet sourced from a root network device of the tree-based topology, the data packet including a data structure identifying transmitted data packets having been transmitted by the root network device; determining, by the network device, a distance to the root network device via the tree-based topology; determining, by the network device, one or more absent transmitted data packets based on the data structure; the network device starting, in response to determining the one or more absent transmitted data packets, a deferred transmission timer that defers to a parent device based on requiring the network device to wait at least a first half of a selected minimum contention interval before attempting transmission at a randomized position within a second half of the selected minimum contention interval, the starting including setting the selected minimum contention interval to at least twice the corresponding selected minimum contention interval of the parent device based on the distance; and the network device selectively transmitting a control message to the parent device to cause transmission of the one or more absent transmitted data packets only if, upon reaching the corresponding randomized position of the deferred transmission timer, the network device has not received the one or more absent transmitted data packets.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19718
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15954786', '15454991', '15190798', '15002322', '15359739']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5231542709543506
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5159613419931299
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5224349780582286
- Mean Citation Score: 222.20964400000005
- Max Citation Score: 297.69693
- Similarity Product: 233.5664872336077

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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