PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15988678
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["370", "338000"]

Abstract:
A sensor gateway manages wireless communications to sensors and the exchange of data between the sensors and a connection to the Internet. A sensor gateway processor runs the network and wireless stack, automatically picks the same channel as the home access point (AP), and runs sensor software to provide the sensors with low power, wireless support and deep sleep support. The sensor gateway selects same channel as the home AP by following the strongest beacon or by following the home AP service set identifier (SSID), in case more than one strong beacon is present. If the home AP and sensor gateway are placed close by and are on a different channel in 2.4G, there is destructive interference between the two devices. By using same channel on the sensor gateway as that of the home AP, both devices can coexist in same band without destructive interference.

Claim (Index 13):
The sensor gateway of  claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to execute further instructions to cause the sensor gateway to further:\n employ a channel selection scheme in which any of the following steps are performed:\n when a scan by the sensor gateway channel detects one or more APs or gateways operating within close proximity to the sensor gateway, as estimated by a received signal strength indication (RSSI) from each AP, then the sensor gateway switching from said selected channel to another channel based on the AP with highest RSSI, wherein the sensor gateway also returns data that indicates an SSID and BSSID, utilized in association with the other channel, to the application layer of all APs within three meters; \n when the sensor gateway has selected a channel of a nearby AP or gateway, it monitors that AP's or gateway's traffic for channel change announcements, and follows a channel change of that AP if the channel has changed; \n on command from a host application, forcing the sensor gateway to rescan channels for a best available network; \n if at any time the sensor gateway changes its channel, it broadcasts a channel change announcement to all stations within a BSS; \n enabling auto-channel selection by default, wherein the host application can disable auto-channel selection; \n if at any time the sensor gateway determines that there is no longer an AP in close proximity, then it no longer follows channel changes of any AP; \n when the sensor gateway changes a communication channel of an AP with which it is in communication, it announces the change to an application layer; \n when the sensor gateway is following channel changes of an AP and then no longer follows channel changes of any AP, it announces the change to the application layer; \n when the sensor gateway is manually set to follow channel changes of an AP, it always follows channel changes of that AP, even if there are closer APs or if that AP RSSI has dropped significantly low; \n providing a programmable RSSI threshold to detect an AP within a predetermined distance to allow adjustment of the programmable RSSI threshold if needed; and \n the sensor gateway scanning available Wi-Fi channels for a best channel to use, based on a least used/least interfered with channel algorithm in the absence of nearby APs.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 92.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97531
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14558085', '14104519', '11862681', '13943872', '12845131']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.568311401337268
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5160585943331191
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.563086120636853
- Mean Citation Score: 185.557056
- Max Citation Score: 320.45645
- Similarity Product: 280.01852593420745

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