PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16193420
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["455", "431000"]

Abstract:
An air-to-ground communications system includes at least one base station to be positioned on the ground and including a ground-based transceiver, a phased array antenna coupled to the ground-based transceiver, and a beamforming network coupled to the ground-based transceiver. The ground-based transceiver is configured to provide data traffic and control information to an aircraft. The beamforming network is configured to simultaneously generate at least one narrow antenna beam for the data traffic and at least one wide beam for the control information.

Claim (Index 1):
A base station of an air-to-ground (ATG) communications system, the base station being configured to communicate with an in-flight aircraft of the ATG communications system, the base station comprising:\n a ground-based transceiver; a ground-based controller operably coupled to the ground-based transceiver; and a beamforming network operably coupled to the ground-based controller, wherein the beamforming network is configured to generate a wide antenna beam and a plurality of fixed narrow antenna beams that overlap the wide antenna beam, wherein the wide antenna beam is associated with communication of control information and the narrow antenna beams are each associated with communication of data traffic, and wherein the beamforming network is configured to:\n responsive to establishment of access to the aircraft via the wide antenna beam, receive position information via a return link from the aircraft, the position information being indicative of aircraft position, \n determine one of the narrow antenna beams to activate based on the position information, and \n activate the determined one of the narrow antenna beams to communicate the data traffic with the aircraft.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93333
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14875795', '15494659', '13168617', '15186407', '13833178']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7106145469687866
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5429316537411147
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6938462576460194
- Mean Citation Score: 285.2746120000001
- Max Citation Score: 397.44626
- Similarity Product: 334.9586195195937

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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