PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15964984
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["398", "115000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to digital interface modules (DIMs) for flexibly distributing digital and/or analog communications signals in wide-area analog distributed antenna systems (DASs). In this regard, in one aspect, a DIM is a multi-functional device capable of distributing the digital and/or analog communications signals to a local-area DASs in the wide-area DAS. The DIM comprises a digital communications interface for coupling with a digital signal source, an analog local distribution interface for coupling with an analog signal source, and at least one digital remote distribution interface for coupling with a head-end unit (HEU) of the local-area DAS. By employing the DIM in the wide-area DAS, it is possible to flexibly reconfigure the wide-area DAS for distributing digital and/or analog communications signals over the digital communications mediums.

Claim (Index 1):
A digital interface module (DIM) in a main distributed antenna system (DAS) to support a wide-area DAS, comprising:\n at least one digital remote distribution interface to be coupled with a remote DAS component in a remote DAS in the wide-area DAS; an analog local distribution interface configured to receive a downlink analog radio frequency (RF) signal from a radio interface module (RIM) in the main DAS; an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter coupled to the analog local distribution interface, wherein the A/D converter is configured to:\n receive the downlink analog RF signal from the analog local distribution interface; and \n convert the downlink analog RF signal to generate a downlink digital RF signal; \n a digital signal processing circuit coupled to the A/D converter and the at least one digital remote distribution interface; and wherein the digital signal processing circuit is configured to:\n receive the downlink digital RF signal from the A/D converter; \n convert the downlink digital RF signal to generate one or more first downlink digital RF signals; \n combine one or more respective first downlink digital RF signals to generate a combined downlink digital RF signal; and \n provide the combined downlink digital RF signal to the at least one digital remote distribution interface to be distributed to the remote DAS component.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26984
- Patent Class: 398.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15472909', '15475589', '15584189', '14823304', '14496507']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7686445030245358
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.7015529311058175
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.761935345832664
- Mean Citation Score: 497.108556
- Max Citation Score: 731.8575
- Similarity Product: 698.6597248099744

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

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