PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15906071
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["375", "267000"]

Abstract:
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for enhancing a beamforming training procedure. For example, an apparatus can include a processing system that generates a plurality of transmit beamforming refinement frames for a transmit sector sweep that each include a preamble, a data field, at least one beamforming training field, identification of a transmit antenna array to be used for transmitting the at least one beamforming training field, and a status indication of whether the transmit beamforming refinement frame is a last transmit beamforming refinement frame in the transmit sector sweep for one or more receive antenna arrays of a wireless node. The apparatus also includes a first interface that outputs the transmit beamforming refinement frames using a first transmit beamforming sector for the preambles and data fields, and one or more second transmit beamforming sectors for subfields of the beamforming training fields.

Claim (Index 5):
The apparatus of  claim 4 , wherein generating the at least one receive beamforming refinement frame comprises:\n determining a number of subfields to include in the at least one beamforming training field of the receive beamforming refinement frame based, at least in part, on whether the receive antenna array identified in the receive beamforming refinement frame differs from a current receive antenna array configured for the wireless node; and generating the at least one beamforming training field to include the number of subfields.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15278
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15867217', '15906362', '15379184', '15864585', '15148902']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5973586989814291
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5352848785221239
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5911513169354986
- Mean Citation Score: 363.981496
- Max Citation Score: 379.694
- Similarity Product: 267.6679010698795

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

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