PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15751448
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["370", "329000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for blind decoding control signal candidates, preconfigured by a base station for a user equipment in a control region of each subframe. A plurality of starting positions is preconfigured between two subsequent subframe boundaries. The subframe is either a partial subframe or a full subframe. A first set of control signal candidates is preconfigured for the UE for the first starting position, and further sets of control signal candidates are preconfigured for the remaining starting positions. The number of control signal candidates of at least one of the further sets is less than the number of control signal candidates of the first set. For each subframe, the UE, for at least the first starting position out of the plurality of starting positions, blind decodes the set of control signal candidates preconfigured for that starting position to receive the one or more control signals.

Claim (Index 17):
The user equipment according to  claim 11 , wherein the user equipment is either configured to perform or not perform blind decoding for partial subframes,\n wherein in case the user equipment is configured to not perform blind decoding for partial subframes, the means for blind decoding perform for each subframe the blind decoding only for the first starting position of that subframe, wherein in case the user equipment is configured to perform blind decoding for partial subframes, the means for blind decoding perform for each subframe the blind decoding for each of the plurality of starting positions of that subframe, wherein the first set of control signal candidates is to be blind decoded by the user equipment at the first starting position when being configured to not perform blind decoding for partial subframes, and a second set of control signal candidates, different from the first set, is to be blind decoded by the user equipment at the first starting position when being configured to perform blind decoding for partial subframes, wherein the number of control signal candidates of a set, preconfigured for a first starting position of a subframe to be blind decoded by the user equipment when being configured to not perform blind decoding for partial subframes, is the same as the number of control signal candidates of the sets preconfigured for all of the plurality of starting positions defined for a subframe to be blind decoded by the user equipment when being configured to perform blind decoding for partial subframes, wherein the user equipment is configured to perform or not perform blind decoding for partial subframes via higher-layer signaling, such as radio resource control signaling.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.62295
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13569646', '13832948', '15034628', '15635598', '14707933']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6335514646640407
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5322754321902226
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6234238614166588
- Mean Citation Score: 352.637344
- Max Citation Score: 374.16107
- Similarity Product: 247.36235492892624

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

Dataset: test