PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16397829
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["398", "154000"]

Abstract:
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing network timing functionality. In some embodiments, a grand master clock(s) might receive a first timing signal from a global positioning system (“GPS”) source via a GPS antenna(s), and might send a second timing signal (which might be based at least in part on the first timing signal) to a slave clock(s), in some cases, via one or more network elements or the like. A computing system might calculate various transmission times for the second timing signal to be transmitted between the grand master clock(s) and the slave clock(s), and might calculate any time delay differences in the transmission times, might generate a third timing signal based at least in part on the calculated time delay differences (if any), and might send the third timing signal to one or more network elements, thereby providing Accurate Synchronization as a Service (“ASaaS”) functionality.

Claim (Index 6):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n receiving, with a second grand master clock, a fourth timing signal from at least one of the first GPS source or a second GPS source; sending, with the second grand master clock, a fifth timing signal to a second slave clock via a third network path in the first network, the fifth timing signal being based at least in part on the fourth timing signal, the third network path being different from any of the first network path or the second network path; sending, with the second grand master clock, the fifth timing signal to the second slave clock via a fourth network path in the first network, the fourth network path being different from any of the first network path, the second network path, or the third network path; calculating, with the computing system, a third transmission time for the fifth timing signal to be transmitted between the second grand master clock and the second slave clock via the third network path; calculating, with the computing system, a fourth transmission time for the fifth timing signal to be transmitted between the second grand master clock and the second slave clock via the fourth network path; based on a determination that the third transmission time and the fourth transmission time are different, calculating, with the computing system, a time delay difference between the third network path and the fourth network path in terms of sending the fifth timing signal to the second slave clock; generating, with the computing system, a sixth timing signal, based at least in part on the fifth timing signal and the calculated time delay difference between the third network path and the fourth network path and based at least in part on the second timing signal and the calculated time delay difference between the first network path and the second network path; and sending, with the computing system, the generated sixth timing signal to the network node disposed within the second network.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35443
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15393556', '16030326', '12436852', '12062557', '12104662']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6352111490132627
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.567538008795177
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6284438349914541
- Mean Citation Score: 262.459546
- Max Citation Score: 393.51877
- Similarity Product: 388.597608700285

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