PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16397829
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["398", "154000"]

Abstract:
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing network timing functionality. In some embodiments, a grand master clock(s) might receive a first timing signal from a global positioning system (“GPS”) source via a GPS antenna(s), and might send a second timing signal (which might be based at least in part on the first timing signal) to a slave clock(s), in some cases, via one or more network elements or the like. A computing system might calculate various transmission times for the second timing signal to be transmitted between the grand master clock(s) and the slave clock(s), and might calculate any time delay differences in the transmission times, might generate a third timing signal based at least in part on the calculated time delay differences (if any), and might send the third timing signal to one or more network elements, thereby providing Accurate Synchronization as a Service (“ASaaS”) functionality.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for implementing accurate synchronization as a service (\u201cASaaS\u201d) functionality, comprising:\n receiving, with a first grand master clock, a first timing signal from a first global positioning system (\u201cGPS\u201d) source; sending, with the first grand master clock, a second timing signal to a first slave clock via a first network path in a first network, the second timing signal being based at least in part on the first timing signal; sending, with the first grand master clock, the second timing signal to the first slave clock via a second network path in the first network, the second network path being different from the first network path; calculating, with a computing system, a first transmission time for the second timing signal to be transmitted between the first grand master clock and the first slave clock via the first network path; calculating, with the computing system, a second transmission time for the second timing signal to be transmitted between the first grand master clock and the first slave clock via the second network path; based on a determination that the first transmission time and the second transmission time are different, calculating, with the computing system, a time delay difference between the first network path and the second network path in terms of sending the second timing signal to the first slave clock; generating, with the computing system, a third timing signal, based at least in part on the second timing signal and the calculated time delay difference between the first network path and the second network path; and sending, with the computing system, the generated third timing signal to a network node disposed within a second network.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35443
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15393556', '16030326', '12436852', '12062557', '12104662']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6351987873424048
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.567552453492896
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6284341539574538
- Mean Citation Score: 262.459546
- Max Citation Score: 393.51877
- Similarity Product: 388.9419595784265

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

Dataset: test