PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16220960
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["370", "235000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods are disclosed for enabling a mesh network node to switch from a base station role to a user equipment role relative to a second mesh network node, and vice versa. By switching roles in this manner, the mesh network node may be able to benefit from increased uplink or downlink speed in the new role. This role reversal technique is particularly useful when using wireless protocols such as LTE that are asymmetric and allow differing throughput on uplink and downlink connections. Methods for determining whether to perform role reversal are disclosed, and methods for using role reversal in mesh networks comprising greater than two nodes are also disclosed.

Claim (Index 4):
A method comprising:\n receiving, at a first network node, an attach message from a mobile device; selecting a nearby available network node as a second network node based on an operational characteristic; evaluating at least one traffic parameter to determine a role of the first network node for relating to the second network node; sending an attach message from the first network node to the second network node based on evaluation of the at least one traffic parameter; setting up an uplink Internet Protocol (IP) session from the first network node to the second network node, with the role of the first network node being a user equipment (UE) role; relaying IP packets from the mobile device to a core network via the second network node; tearing down the uplink IP session and receiving an attach message from the second network node at the first network node for setting up a downlink IP session from the first network node to the second network node, with the role of the second network node being a UE role; and enabling aggregation of a plurality of carrier bands for the downlink IP session.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.61644
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15202496', '14453365', '15334270', '14571250', '15686152']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5639266134934133
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5276251504471443
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5602964671887865
- Mean Citation Score: 256.35705199999995
- Max Citation Score: 364.61417
- Similarity Product: 339.68350539417384

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

Dataset: test