PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15768312
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "329000"]

Abstract:
The method of the invention envisages determining, for each packet that is to be transmitted/retransmitted, through an LLC communication protocol, which is the top sublayer of the datalink layer of the ISO-OSI model, (LLC logic) autonomously, node by node, the specific communication apparatus to be used from the ones available on the single node, to which subset of the nodes said packet is to be transmitted (routing logic), i.e., the number and the set of neighbouring nodes to which it is to be transmitted, the specific communication apparatus to be used from the multiple ones that may be available, and the maximum number of retransmissions to be made, by using a decentralized self-learning algorithm that enables each node to learn and select dynamically the best operating mode, according to the number of transmissions already made.

Claim (Index 4):
The method as per  claim 1 , characterized in that the LLC sublayer governs the retransmission logic of a node by carrying out in succession the following steps:\n when a node has to send (or re-send in the case of retransmission) a packet, it interfaces with the routing module of the node for identifying the nodes to which the packet is to be sent: for this purpose, the LLC sublayer sends to the network layer the number of times that the packet has already been transmitted (unsuccessfully) and receives from the latter the set of the nodes to which the packet is to be sent (a set that in general will be a function also of the number of retransmissions of that packet); after the node has sent a packet and set off a timer, it waits for an implicit acknowledgement using the overhearing technique whereby the packet is considered as having been sent successfully if at least one of the nodes to which it had sent the packet retransmits it, and then passes on to transmission of the next packet; if, instead, no copy of the packet is detected, it is assumed that none of the nodes have received it, and the packet is retransmitted after a backoff period; each packet being transmitted at the most a number K of times, after which the packet is rejected, said parameter K being dynamically set on the basis of the estimated load.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06757
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15768275', '13876183', '13876498', '12644796', '11895608']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5790377799369155
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.491841993054082
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5703182012486322
- Mean Citation Score: 199.142552
- Max Citation Score: 234.0583
- Similarity Product: 172.36591911091804

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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