PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15891348
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["370", "329000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus may be used to support coordinated and cooperative sectorized transmissions. Power control and clear channel assessment for sectorized transmissions may be used, along with sectorized beacon and associated procedures. Transmissions in a network may be protected by a first access point (AP) sending an omni-directional transmission and a beamformed or sectorized transmission to a station (STA), an overlapping basic service set (OBSS) confirming a spatially orthogonal (SO) condition based on the omni-directional transmission, and a second AP monitoring the omni-directional transmission and confirming the SO condition. The STA may be configured to receive a request-to-send (RTS) frame indicating data is available for transmission, and transmit a cooperative sectorized (CS) clear-to-send (CTS) frame indicating an ability for multiple AP reception.

Claim (Index 7):
A first wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) in a wireless network, the first WTRU comprising:\n a receiver configured to receive a signal from a second WTRU that is located within a reception range of a sectorized beam transmission of the first WTRU; and a processor configured to:\n calculate an adjusted clear channel assessment (CCA) level based on a predetermined CCA level of the first WTRU and an antenna gain associated with the sectorized beam transmission; and \n determine, based on a strength of the signal and the adjusted CCA level, whether a wireless medium associated with the second WTRU is occupied or idle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.85897
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14888622', '15852276', '15510127', '14441487', '14413694']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5734680569401429
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5231046620692652
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5684317174530551
- Mean Citation Score: 290.046146
- Max Citation Score: 339.7755
- Similarity Product: 220.0959258677065

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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