PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16057079
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["455", "438000"]

Abstract:
Techniques are described for improving handover performance in the context of UEs incorporated into unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, a.k.a., drones). A database is constructed that relates locations in a three-dimensional flying space to handover information that may include optimum scanning directions, optimum handover parameters, and/or optimum target cells to be monitored for possible handover.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for an evolved Node B (eNB) or a next generation evolved Node B (gNB) configured to operate as a serving cell for a user equipment (UE) configured as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for operation in a three-dimensional (3D) region, the apparatus comprising\n memory and processing circuitry, wherein the processing circuitry is to: decode location information received from the UE that indicates the UE's location in the three-dimensional geographic region as defined by longitude, latitude; and elevation coordinates; compute a handover parameter set as a function of the location information, wherein the handover parameter set includes one or more preferred beamforming directions for the UE to use in scanning neighboring cells and measuring their link qualities for possible handover, wherein the preferred beamforming directions are based in part on the elevation coordinate; encode the computed handover parameter set for transmission to the UE; and, store the computed handover parameter set in memory.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.26531
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16081787', '15747285', '15565202', '15770948', '14977412']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6743232921301308
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4696610660865549
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6538570695257733
- Mean Citation Score: 158.48642800000005
- Max Citation Score: 166.02161999999996
- Similarity Product: 124.86119748794312

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

Dataset: test