PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16023814
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "328000"]

Abstract:
Example computer-implemented methods, computer-readable media, and computer systems are described for providing communication protocol architecture or framework for magnetic induction (MI)-based communications in wireless underground sensor networks (WUSNs), for example, in underground oil reservoirs. In some aspects, environment information of an underground region that affects the transmission qualities of MI communications is evaluated. A protocol stack is identified. The protocol stack includes a number of layers for MI communications among a number of sensors in a WUSN in the underground region. A cross-layer framework and the distributed protocol are built to jointly optimize communication functionalities of the plurality of layers based on the evaluation.

Claim (Index 5):
A system comprising:\n a plurality of sensors in a wireless underground sensor network (WUSN) in an underground region, wherein each of the plurality of sensors comprises:\n at least one processor; and \n a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium coupled to the at least one processor and storing programming instructions for execution by the at least one processor, the programming instructions instruct the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:\n identifying a plurality of environment-dependent parameters measured by the plurality of sensors; \n identifying respective communication functions for a plurality of layers of a protocol stack for magnetic induction (MI) communications among the plurality of sensors in the WUSN in the underground region; \n identifying an optimization problem for jointly optimizing the respective communication functions of the plurality of layers of the protocol stack based on the plurality of environment-dependent parameters, the optimization problem including a plurality of transmission parameters defining the respective communication functions of the plurality of layers of the protocol stack; \n determining the plurality of transmission parameters by solving the optimization problem; and \n \n transmitting based on magnetic induction, signals using the plurality of transmission parameters defining the respective communication functions of the plurality of layers of the protocol stack.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65278
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15370740', '16012917', '15486754', '15685238', '14415455']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5623788958017588
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5740147405679006
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5635424802783731
- Mean Citation Score: 313.8536200000001
- Max Citation Score: 497.51776
- Similarity Product: 397.9643056272506

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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