PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16177915
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["455", "041200"]

Abstract:
Provided are systems and methods for reversing the conventional roles of central and peripheral devices in a BLE network. Doing so includes implementing an end node (EN) as the sole initiator of a connection between a particular EN and a particular access point (AP). Such implementation includes determining a location of the EN based on position information for multiple reference points (RPs), which may in instances be supplied by the AP. Advantageously, the relative positioning is more particularly based on the received signal strengths (RSS) of beacon advertisement messages broadcast from the RPs, and refined by each of the position information.

Claim (Index 13):
A method of BLE communication, comprising:\n executing, by one or more processors among a BLE end node (EN), a BLE access point (AP) configured to connect to a network, and a plurality of BLE reference points (RPs) configured to not connect to the network, a set of instructions for\n transmitting a first and a second beacon advertisement message from the AP and each of the plurality of RPs, respectively, each second beacon advertisement message comprising position information, \n detecting the first and the second beacon advertisement messages at the EN, \n initiating a connection between the AP and the EN, in which, as a result of the connection, the AP is caused to transfer to the network identifying information of each of the EN and the AP, and \n determining, as against others of the plurality of RPs, whether a proximity of a respective one of the plurality of RPs is a nearest proximity based on the position information and received signal strengths (RSSs) of the second beacon advertisement messages, \n wherein\n the EN determines whether to initiate the connection with the AP in response to evaluating from the detected first beacon advertisement message at the time of transmission of the first beacon advertisement message each of at least (a) whether a proximity of the AP to the EN is a nearest proximity and (b) a loading of the network to which the AP is connected, and \n transmits, via the connection, identifying information of the respective one of the plurality of RPs to the network in response to a determination that the respective one of the plurality of RPs is nearest in proximity to the EN, from among others of the plurality.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 62.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.56757
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15957025', '15991249', '15626083', '15927388', '14319801']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7294138604366788
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5308846990369179
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7095609442967027
- Mean Citation Score: 326.43454600000007
- Max Citation Score: 384.09598
- Similarity Product: 349.2428722166527

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test