PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15946041
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["375", "257000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of methods and systems for supporting coexistence of multiple technologies in a Power Line Communication (PLC) network are disclosed. A long coexistence preamble sequence may be transmitted by a device that has been forced to back off the PLC channel multiple times. The long coexistence sequence provides a way for the device to request channel access from devices on the channel using other technology. The device may transmit a data packet after transmitting the long coexistence preamble sequence. A network duty cycle time may also be defined as a maximum allowed duration for nodes of the same network to access the channel. When the network duty cycle time occurs, all nodes will back off the channel for a duty cycle extended inter frame space before transmitting again. The long coexistence preamble sequence and the network duty cycle time may be used together.

Claim (Index 13):
The method of  claim 12 , wherein the values of ndcTime and N are selected so that ndcTime is less than the value of (N\u00d7dcEIFS).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88889
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14824506', '13910125', '13665343', '14619514', '14985898']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5375622398831192
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5608416101666401
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5398901769114713
- Mean Citation Score: 379.633642
- Max Citation Score: 433.35147
- Similarity Product: 340.3322777112276

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

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