PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16038023
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["370", "312000"]

Abstract:
Devices and methods for synchronized group messaging in a wireless communication system are described. Multicast transmissions, such as those in a dense network, can cause significant medium usage because same multicast packet is likely sent by multiple APs at different time. Medium usage in such implementations may be redundant. As such, the transmission medium is not used optimally. Devices and methods which coordinate and align group messages (e.g., multicast packets) amongst APs are described. Each AP may be configured to transmit identical packets at the same time. Therefore, medium usage can be reduced, while the range can be extended due to accumulated energy from APs.

Claim (Index 7):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein:\n the group of access points is associated with a group temporal key (GTK), and wherein each of the first wireless communication and the at least one second wireless communication is encrypted based on the GTK; or the group of access points is associated with a common transmit Media Access Control (MAC) address, and wherein each of the first wireless communication and the at least one second wireless communication includes the common transmit MAC address; or the group of access points is associated with a common MAC protocol data unit (MPDU) sequence number, and wherein each of the first wireless communication and the at least one second wireless communication includes the common MPDU sequence number.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.57895
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13720382', '14265132', '15973401', '14265269', '15220340']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5864874053076717
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4928025619780204
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5771189209747066
- Mean Citation Score: 200.37406000000004
- Max Citation Score: 207.84814
- Similarity Product: 139.37251838315248

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