PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16343842
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["370", "331000"]

Abstract:
In a cellular telecommunications system, outage management is managed in respect of each cell B by a nominated neighbor cell A, the identity of which is recorded in a neighbor list for cell B. If a cell C, D, other than the nominated neighbor, detects a suspected outage in a cell B, the cell detecting the outage identifies the nominated neighbor A from the neighbor list of cell B, and transmits an outage report to the nominated neighbor cell A, which coordinates a handover and outage management process. This avoids multiple detections of the same outage resulting in conflicting attempts to manage the recovery process. Selection of the nominated neighbor of a cell B may be made autonomously by the cell itself or by a centralized processor, and may be done in such a way as to support network resilience by avoiding reciprocity between cells, selecting, for a cell B connected to a first backhaul system, a nominated neighbor A using a second backhaul system, and avoiding the use of cells E having intermittent or transient connections to the network.

Claim (Index 6):
A cellular base station comprising:\n a neighbor detection processor for detecting a presence of neighboring base stations; and a store for recording identities of neighboring base stations so detected, and for recording for each neighboring base station a predetermined nominated neighbor base station, wherein the neighbor detection processor is arranged to identify a deterioration in signal quality of a base station previously recorded in the store, to determine from a neighbor list the identity of the predetermined nominated neighbor of the base station suffering a deterioration in signal quality, and to generate a report for transmission to the nominated neighbor base station to initiate a handover and outage management process.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26437
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16085781', '14044738', '13142103', '13813710', '12414395']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5423611659739237
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.506451718829023
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5387702212594336
- Mean Citation Score: 222.135612
- Max Citation Score: 261.23135
- Similarity Product: 167.74772997490766

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