PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15894044
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["370", "329000"]

Abstract:
Various methods of allocating uplink control channels in a communication system are implemented at a resource scheduler or a user equipment (UE). In one method the scheduler reserves resources for a downlink data channel and signals a corresponding downlink data channel grant and also reserves resources for a persistent uplink control channel for a longer duration than the data channel grant. Signaling overhead associated with a grant for this persistent uplink control channel is reduced over a full dynamic grant. A predetermined rule can be used at the scheduler and at the UE to avoid overhead signaling associated with a grant for this persistent control channel. Predetermined rules at the UE and scheduler can also be used to reserve appropriate resources and select appropriate MCS levels for control information and the control information and uplink data can be transported over a common uplink channel when a time overlap occurs between an uplink data channel and the persistent control channel.

Claim (Index 1):
A base station, comprising:\n at least one antenna; and one or more processors in communication with the at least one antenna, wherein the one or more processors are configured to:\n determine uplink data channel resources sufficient for transmission of data non-associated (DNA) control information when a transmission of the DNA control information time overlaps a transmission of uplink data, wherein said determining includes selecting a data modulation coding scheme (MCS); \n transmit, via the at least one antenna, an uplink channel grant identifying the uplink data channel resources including the data MCS; and \n receive, via the at least one antenna, the uplink data and the DNA control information in accordance with the data MCS and one or more control MCS for the DNA control information on the uplink data channel resources; \n wherein, when the DNA control information comprises channel quality indication (CQI) information, the one or more processors are configured to:\n determine a first control MCS for the CQI information; and \n determine the CQI information is appended to uplink data on the uplink data channel resources; \n wherein, when the DNA control information comprises one or more acknowledgment/non-acknowledgements (ACK/NACKs), the one or more processors are configured to:\n determine a second control MCS for the one or more ACK/NACKs; and \n determine the one or more ACK/NACKs are inserted into the uplink data by overwriting a portion of the uplink data on the uplink data channel resources.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 40.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15584
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14960516', '15480695', '11725422', '14090917', '14436324']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5517749350484024
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5385775259251655
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5504551941360787
- Mean Citation Score: 336.411104
- Max Citation Score: 376.2522
- Similarity Product: 342.5902952363492

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