PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16238888
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["375", "211000"]

Abstract:
In accordance with one or more embodiments, an analog surface wave multi-point repeater includes a first launcher configured to transmit and receive first guided electromagnetic waves that propagate on an outer surface of a first segment of a transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path. A transceiver includes a splitter coupled to a second launcher and the third launcher and a low noise amplifier configured to receive a second microwave signal from the second launcher and the third launcher via the splitter. A directional coupler is configured to couple the second microwave signal from the second launcher and the first microwave signal to the splitter to facilitate transmission of the second guided electromagnetic waves by the second launcher on the second segment of the transmission medium and to further facilitate transmission of the third guided electromagnetic waves by the third launcher on the third segment of the transmission medium.

Claim (Index 17):
An analog surface wave multi-point repeater comprising:\n a first launching means for transmitting and receiving first guided electromagnetic waves that propagate on an outer surface of a first transmission medium segment without requiring an electrical return path; a second launching means for transmitting and receiving second guided electromagnetic waves that propagate on an outer surface of a second segment of transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path; a third launching means for transmitting and receiving third guided electromagnetic waves that propagate on an outer surface of a third segment of transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path; a first transceiver including:\n a first low noise amplifier configured to receive a first microwave signal from the first launching means, wherein the first microwave signal is generated by the first launching means in response to receiving the first guided electromagnetic waves from the first transmission medium segment; \n a first notch filter configured to attenuate signals in a wireless frequency band from the first microwave signal; \n a first amplifier configured to amplify a second microwave signal; and \n a first directional coupler configured to couple the first microwave signal from the first launching means and the second microwave signal to the first launching means to facilitate transmission of the first guided electromagnetic waves on the first transmission medium segment; and \n a second transceiver including:\n a splitter coupled to the second launching means and the third launching means; \n a second low noise amplifier configured to receive the second microwave signal from the second launching means and the third launching means via a splitter, wherein the second microwave signal is generated by the splitter in response to the second launching means receiving the second guided electromagnetic waves from the second transmission medium segment and further in response to response to the third launching means receiving the third guided electromagnetic waves from the third segment of the transmission medium; \n a second notch filter configured to attenuate signals in the wireless frequency band from the second microwave signal; \n a second amplifier configured to amplify the first microwave signal; and \n a second directional coupler configured to couple the second microwave signal from the second launching means and the first microwave signal to the splitter to facilitate transmission of the second guided electromagnetic waves by the second launching means on the second transmission medium segment and to further facilitate transmission of the third guided electromagnetic waves by the third launching means on the third segment of the transmission medium.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.52459
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15935550', '16195047', '15935509', '15935390', '16102262']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4933725281569602
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5550728630742836
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4995425616486926
- Mean Citation Score: 341.600516
- Max Citation Score: 406.97485
- Similarity Product: 397.2823412479461

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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