PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16036248
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["455", "452100"]

Abstract:
A method for assessing an impact of a design choice on a system level performance metric of a radio access network (RAN) deployed in an environment includes receiving messages from a plurality of UEs over time by a plurality of RNs in the RAN. A design choice is selected for a set of operating parameters of the RAN. One or more of measurement values in each of the received messages and the selected design choice are processed to compute a set of derivatives. A system level performance metric is determined as a function of the computed set of derivatives.

Claim (Index 23):
A small cell radio access network (RAN), comprising:\n a plurality of small cell radio nodes (RNs), each of the plurality of small cell RNs serving a small cell radio coverage area; and at least one controller operatively coupled to one or more of the plurality of small cell RNs in the small cell RAN, wherein each of the plurality of small cell RNs is configured to receive a plurality of measurement reports from a plurality of user equipments (UEs) in its respective small cell coverage area over time and forward the plurality of measurement reports to the at least one controller; and wherein the at least one controller is configured to:\n receive, from two or more of the plurality of small cell RNs, the plurality of measurement reports, wherein each of the plurality of RRC measurement reports received from the two or more of the plurality of small cell RNs provide signal strength measurements made by one or more of the plurality of UEs of signals received from different ones of the plurality of small cell RNs; \n receive a plurality of different design choices for a set of operating parameters of the small cell RAN; \n assess an impact of each of the plurality of different design choices for the set of operating parameters by:\n processing each of the plurality of different design choices and one or more of measurement values in each of the received plurality of RRC measurement reports to compute a set of derivatives for each of the plurality of different design choices, wherein each derivative of the set of derivatives for a respective one of the plurality of different design choices is a function of the respective one of the plurality of different design choices and a spatial location of a respective UE in the small cell RAN, such that the set of derivatives is computed for a set of dense spatial data points spanning the small cell radio coverage area of the small cell RAN; and \n determining a system level performance metric for each of the plurality of different design choices as a function of the computed set of derivatives; and \n \n select a design choice from the plurality of different design choices that optimizes the system level performance metric for use in operation of the small cell RAN based on the determined system level performance metric for each of the plurality of different design choices.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81034
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15433352', '15043691', '14075516', '14075509', '15081311']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6864636212027798
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5052445377479446
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6683417128572963
- Mean Citation Score: 207.53006200000004
- Max Citation Score: 278.77747
- Similarity Product: 205.8184056253349

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

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