PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15941999
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["370", "311000"]

Abstract:
A network of nodes includes data nodes and at least one sink node to exchange packets between the sink node and the data nodes in a multi-hop manner. The data nodes include a battery powered node (BPN) having a transceiver, a memory, and a battery to provide energy to components of the BPN. The BPN includes a processor to determine a sleep schedule of the BPN independently from the sleep schedules of other data nodes and independently from commands transmitted by the sink node. The processor of the BPN switches the transceiver ON and OFF according to the sleep schedule to form an active period and a sleep period of the BPN. Also, the processor partitions at least part of the active period into a receiving (RX) period and a transmission (TX) period and causes the transceiver to transmit the data packets only during the TX period.

Claim (Index 15):
A computer-implemented method for managing a battery-powered node (BPN) forming a multi-hop heterogeneous wireless network of nodes including data nodes and at least one sink node, wherein the data nodes include battery-powered nodes (BPNs) and mains-powered nodes (MPNs), wherein the method is implemented using a processor of the BPN executing instructions stored in a memory of the BPN, the method comprising:\n determining a sleep schedule of the BPN independently from the sleep schedules of other data nodes in the network and independently from commands transmitted by the sink node to form an active period of BPN when a transceiver of the BPN is switched ON and to form a sleep period of BPN when the transceiver is switched OFF; transmitting at least some data packets stored in a queue of the BPN if the queue overflows; partitioning at least part of the active period into a receiving (RX) period and a transmission (TX) period; transmitting a wakeup signal specifying the partitioning of the part of the active period; and transmitting the data packets during the TX period after expiration of the RX period.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.40299
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14969279', '14600387', '12990131', '12449103', '15069250']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5169740695601164
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6633244451520783
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5316091071193126
- Mean Citation Score: 372.307614
- Max Citation Score: 654.07916
- Similarity Product: 624.1298390263271

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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