PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15906725
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["370", "329000"]

Abstract:
This invention relates to a proposal of an uplink resource assignment format and a downlink resource assignment format. Furthermore, the invention relates to the use of the new uplink/downlink resource assignments in methods for (de)activation of downlink component carrier(s) configured for a mobile terminal, a base station and a mobile terminal. To enable efficient and robust (de)activation of component carriers, while minimizing the signaling overhead, the invention proposes a new uplink/downlink resource assignment format that allow the activation/deactivation of individual downlink component carriers configured for a mobile. The new uplink or downlink resource assignment comprises an indication of the activation state of the configured downlink component carriers, i.e., indicate which downlink component carrier(s) is/are to be activated or deactivated. This indication is for example implemented by means of a bit-mask that indicates which of the configured uplink component carriers are to be activated respectively deactivated.

Claim (Index 1):
An integrated circuit comprising:\n circuitry, which, in operation, controls:\n generation of resource assignment information including a plurality of bits that indicate activation or deactivation statuses of respective downlink component carriers, the downlink component carriers being secondary downlink component carriers added to a primary component carrier which is always activated, each of the downlink component carriers corresponding to one bit included in the plurality of bits, and the one bit indicating that a corresponding downlink component carrier is to be activated or deactivated, wherein when any one bit of the plurality of bits indicates that its corresponding downlink component carrier is to be activated, the plurality of bits jointly indicate the activation or deactivation statuses, a sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission request and a channel quality information (CQI) reporting request; \n transmission of the generated resource assignment information; and \n reception of a SRS and a CQI that are transmitted, in response to the SRS transmission request and the CQI reporting request, on an uplink component carrier linked to one or more activated downlink component carriers; and \n at least one output coupled to the circuity, which, in operation, outputs data.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33333
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15687086', '15374195', '15202444', '14464266', '13577861']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6523016634126788
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6370098420623006
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.650772481277641
- Mean Citation Score: 584.25079
- Max Citation Score: 594.4703
- Similarity Product: 578.671136170566

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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