PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16017790
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "329000"]

Abstract:
Operational and environmental efficiency in virtual radio access networks (VRANs) can be improved by offloading data traffic and/or control signaling between physical transmit points (TPs) of a virtual TP. This may allow one or more physical TPs of the virtual TP to be muted in the downlink or uplink direction, thereby reducing energy consumption. The offloading may be performed during relatively short time-intervals such that physical TP are muted for one or more transmission time intervals (TTIs) before being re-activated. The offloading may also be implemented over longer time-intervals in accordance with a traffic engineering (TE) policy. Further it is possible to re-activate a de-activated downlink transmitter of physical TP by monitoring wireless signals via an activated receiver of the physical TP.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for a helping user equipment (UE) in a wireless communications network, the method comprising:\n transmitting an uplink signal to a first physical transmit point (TP), wherein the uplink signal is associated with a target UE that is engaged in device-to-device (D2D) communications with the helping UE, and the uplink signal is associated with a downlink re-activation criteria for waking the first physical TP.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.54545
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15808737', '14672423', '14667497', '15125565', '14375515']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.537890922897063
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4499493653473926
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.529096767142096
- Mean Citation Score: 174.22805
- Max Citation Score: 213.84851
- Similarity Product: 213.2973444537669

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

Dataset: test