PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15870060
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["370", "329000"]

Abstract:
Apparatus, computer readable media, and methods for enhanced beamforming training in a wireless local area network are disclosed. An apparatus of a access point or station is disclosed. The apparatus including processing circuitry where the processing circuitry is configured to encode an EBRP packet comprising a first portion comprising an indication of a first number of transmit antenna training settings (N-TX), and an indication of a second number of receive training subfields per N-TX settings (N-RX), and a second portion comprising a third number of training subfields. The third number may be less than or equal to N-TX times N-RX. The processing circuitry may be configured to cause the first portion of the EBRP packet to be transmitted and cause the second portion to be transmitted, where two or more of the third number of training subfields are to be transmitted simultaneously using different antennas and orthogonal sequences.

Claim (Index 9):
A method for operating an apparatus of an enhanced directional multi-gigabit (EDMG) station (STA) configured to operate as an initiator and to participate in training with a plurality of responder stations, the EDMG STA capable of transmitting and receiving EDMG physical layer (PHY) protocol data units (PPDUs), the apparatus comprising: PHY circuitry, the method comprising utilizing the PHY circuitry for:\n encoding an EDMG beam refining protocol (BRP) packet which is a physical layer convergence procedure (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU), the EDMG PPDU comprising, in a portion:\n a legacy short training field (L-STF); \n a legacy channel training field (L-CEF); \n a legacy header (L-Header) field; and \n an EDMG-Header-A field; \n wherein:\n the EDMG PPDU further comprises a training (TRN) field including a plurality of TRN units; \n the EDMG-Header-A field comprises a transmit number that corresponds to a number of TRN-Units present in the TRN field of the EDGM PPDU; \n the training sequences comprise TRN-Units for transmission to another device for antenna training; \n the PHY circuitry is further configured to cause the station to transmit the portion and the TRN field of the EDGM PPDU; \n the TRN field comprises a number of orthogonal waveforms, the number of orthogonal waveforms corresponding to a number of transmit chains used in transmission of the EDMG PPDU; and \n the orthogonal waveforms are to be transmitted simultaneously to train multiple antennas.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 54.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21918
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14969506', '14978330', '15655290', '15086113', '15473839']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5202237531636271
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5253513703045721
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5207365148777217
- Mean Citation Score: 270.17440600000003
- Max Citation Score: 326.79855
- Similarity Product: 230.70145664976243

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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