PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15906362
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["375", "267000"]

Abstract:
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for enhancing a beamforming training procedure. For example, according to certain aspects, devices may exchange information regarding the number of beamforming transmit sectors each device plans to use for both partial and full sector sweeps, as well as the number of receive antennas. The devices may also exchange timing information used to synchronize when the devices start to perform the partial and full sector sweeps, after detecting a lost link.

Claim (Index 12):
The apparatus of  claim 10 , wherein the at least one first frame comprises a beamforming refinement phase (BRP) frame.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.55357
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15906071', '15455095', '15864585', '15379184', '15345398']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5516504009263646
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5252574385575473
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5490111046894829
- Mean Citation Score: 305.5854920000001
- Max Citation Score: 340.22458
- Similarity Product: 245.85333287734508

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