PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15910090
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["455", "419000"]

Abstract:
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to supplement network coverage with a fleet of autonomous drones are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein include configuring a first drone with information specifying a size and a target location associated with the coverage area. Disclosed example methods also include, when the first drone reaches the target location, monitoring for communication signals to determine whether a first coverage zone provided by the first drone and a second coverage zone provided by a second drone in a fleet of drones overlap. Disclosed example methods further include autonomously adjusting a position of the first drone to maintain overlapping of the first coverage zone provided by the first drone with the coverage area, but to reduce an amount of overlap of the first coverage zone with the second coverage zone.

Claim (Index 8):
A non-transitory computer readable medium including computer readable instructions which, when executed, cause performance of operations comprising:\n determining that a geographic area needs or will need wireless network coverage; in response to the determining, deploying a plurality of drones to a plurality of different locations within the geographic area, each drone of the plurality being deployed to a respective one of the different locations, wherein the plurality of drones provides the wireless network coverage to a plurality of different coverage zones, each drone of the plurality providing coverage to a respective one of the different zones; determining, after the deploying, that:\n a coverage overlap exists between two or more of the plurality of different coverage zones; or \n one or more coverage holes exist within the geographic area, wherein the one or more coverage holes correspond to one or more portions of the geographic area not covered by any of the plurality of different coverage zones; and \n adjusting, in response to the determining after the deploying, one or more locations of one or more of the plurality of drones to shrink the coverage overlap or the one or more coverage holes.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20588
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15063424', '14885679', '15633257', '14954595', '15048759']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7010034775180407
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5154056761678141
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.682443697383018
- Mean Citation Score: 229.884776
- Max Citation Score: 323.5268
- Similarity Product: 283.4208307340145

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

Dataset: test