PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16061779
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["370", "230000"]

Abstract:
A method to enable network slice aware access control in a wireless communication system. In some embodiments, the method includes adding network slice configuration information (NSCI) to the system information (SI) (e.g., System Information Block (SIB)) that is broadcast over the air interface (e.g. the LTE/NX air interface).

Claim (Index 40):
A method, performed by a wireless communication device (WCD), for discovering whether a network slice that the WCD is authorized to use is supported and not barred, the method comprising:\n the WCD searching for system information that is being broadcast by an node element (NE) serving an area in which the WCD is located; the WCD receiving the system information; the WCD locating network slice configuration information (NSCI) within the system information, wherein the NSCI identifies at least one of:\n i) a set of supported network slices and the barring status of each supported network slice; and \n ii) a set of supported network slice groups and the barring status of each supported network slice group; and \n the WCD determining, based on the broadcast NSCI and locally stored configuration information identifying authorized network slices, whether any of the authorized network slices are supported and not barred.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.53659
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16348679', '12759347', '15695411', '12759339', '15600145']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5253981858961899
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4712226131007218
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5199806286166431
- Mean Citation Score: 166.242424
- Max Citation Score: 168.29048
- Similarity Product: 123.86962764917372

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

Dataset: test