PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15768312
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "329000"]

Abstract:
The method of the invention envisages determining, for each packet that is to be transmitted/retransmitted, through an LLC communication protocol, which is the top sublayer of the datalink layer of the ISO-OSI model, (LLC logic) autonomously, node by node, the specific communication apparatus to be used from the ones available on the single node, to which subset of the nodes said packet is to be transmitted (routing logic), i.e., the number and the set of neighbouring nodes to which it is to be transmitted, the specific communication apparatus to be used from the multiple ones that may be available, and the maximum number of retransmissions to be made, by using a decentralized self-learning algorithm that enables each node to learn and select dynamically the best operating mode, according to the number of transmissions already made.

Claim (Index 7):
The method as per the preceding claim, characterized in that, in the updating step, it calculates the new value of Q i (s,a) as sum of: the total cost associated to the current transmission to the nodes in the set a of a packet that has already been transmitted s times; and the mean cost\u2014discounted by a factor gamma comprised between 0 and 1\u2014of the cost of the possible further retransmissions of that packet,\n where the total cost associated to the current transmission to the nodes of the set a of a packet that has already been transmitted s times is equal to the sum of the following three terms: i. the cost of transmission of a packet to the set of nodes associated to the action a; ii. the cost employed by the nodes of the set a to deliver the packet to destination, said cost being defined as sum of the costs of transmission of each node j belonging to the set a, each weighted with the likelihood of the packet sent by the node i reaching the node j; and iii. the cost associated to the possible loss of the packet when this is rejected after the maximum number of retransmissions has been reached, defined by the product of a constant L that represents the penalty associated to the loss of the packet and the likelihood of the packet not being received by any of the addressee nodes, wherein, in the sum, the terms i and iii are weighted (with non-negative weights, the total sum of which is equal to 1) on the basis of the applicational requirements; and moreover, if the number of retransmissions s is less than the maximum value of retransmissions K, the term iii is not considered in so far as the packet is not yet to be considered as having been lost.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06757
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15768275', '13876183', '13876498', '12644796', '11895608']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5755762638437066
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5097833364451364
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5689969711038496
- Mean Citation Score: 199.142552
- Max Citation Score: 234.0583
- Similarity Product: 143.13028350367546

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

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