PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15773202
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["375", "262000"]

Abstract:
Apparatuses, computer readable media, and methods for uplink and downlink sounding for wireless networks are disclosed. An apparatus of a wireless device is disclosed. The apparatus comprising processing circuity configured to: encode a trigger frame for sounding (TF-S), the TF-S comprising an indication of whether a sounding is for uplink (UL) sounding or (DL) sounding, and the TF-S comprising an indication of stations to participate in the UL sounding or the DL sounding; and configure the wireless device to transmit the TF-S to the stations. The processing circuitry may be further configured to: if the sounding is for the DL sounding, encode a null data packet announcement (NDP-A), encode a null data packet (NDP), configure the wireless device to transmit the NDP-A, and configure the wireless device to transmit the NDP.

Claim (Index 27):
An apparatus of a station, the apparatus comprising: memory; and processing circuitry coupled to the memory, the processing circuity configured to:\n decode a null data packet announcement (NDP-A), the NDP-A comprising an indication of whether a sounding is for uplink (UL) sounding or downlink (DL) sounding, and the NDP-A further comprising an indication if the sounding is a single user (SU) sounding or a multiple-user (MU) sounding; if the a receiver address of the NDP-A and a station one address of the NDP-A are both the address of the station, and the sounding is for UL sounding, decode the NDP-A that further comprise a resource allocation for the station to transmit one or more null data packets (NDPs), and configure the station to transmit the one or more NDPs in accordance with the resource allocation; if the a receiver address of the NDP-A and a station one address of the NDP-A are both the address of the station, and the sounding is the DL sounding, decode the NDP-A to further comprise a resource allocation for the station to transmit a feedback frame and to further comprise a type of feedback for the station to determine feedback, decode a high-efficiency (HE) null data packet (HE-NDP), determine feedback based on the HE-NDP and the type of feedback, encode a feedback frame comprising the feedback, and configure the station to transmit the feedback frame in accordance with the resource allocation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64407
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15200387', '15078677', '15086596', '15282749', '14752250']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5202503895044943
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5246715586206532
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5206925064161102
- Mean Citation Score: 303.48631
- Max Citation Score: 346.55658
- Similarity Product: 253.1815541312456

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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