PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15742911
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["370", "328000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for establishing and maintaining a network having two or more subscribers, based on radio connections between the subscribers in accordance with a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) standard, each subscriber being uniquely characterized by way of a subscriber identifier (node ID). Provision is made in that context that clusters having one subscriber, or several subscribers connected by means of BLE network connections, are formed; that a unique cluster identifier (cluster ID) is allocated to each cluster; that a first subscriber of a first cluster selects a second subscriber, located within range of a BLE connection, from a second cluster that is smaller or of the same size, and causes it to be detached from the second cluster and integrated into the first cluster by way of a BLE network connection to the first subscriber. The invention further relates to a beacon for carrying out the method.

Claim (Index 5):
A battery- or rechargeable battery-operated beacon, having a microprocessor and a radio interface, the radio interface being designed to establish, in accordance with a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) standard, a data connection to a further subscriber ( 20 ,  21 ,  22 ,  25 ,  26 ,  27 ) having such an interface, the beacon ( 23 ) being designed to send out connection data and to search for transmitted connection data of further subscribers ( 20 ,  21 ,  22 ,  25 ,  26 ,  27 ),\n wherein the beacon ( 23 ) is embodied to establish a network with the further subscribers ( 20 ,  21 ,  22 ,  25 ,  26 ,  27 ) by BLE network connections; and the beacon ( 23 ) is embodied to reduce the frequency with which connection data are sent out and/or searched for, or to halt the transmission of and/or search for connection data, when the subscribers ( 20 ,  21 ,  22 ,  25 ,  26 ,  27 ) present within range ( 24 ) of a bidirectional BLE connection are integrated into the network.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06098
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10844149', '15089493', '15167096', '11680443', '09600054']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5514275461541092
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4881087604720414
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5450956675859024
- Mean Citation Score: 149.46011600000003
- Max Citation Score: 153.48178
- Similarity Product: 95.623434262259

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

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