PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15750620
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["370", "329000"]

Abstract:
A method and node for uplink scheduling of a plurality of wireless devices in a communications network is provided. The method includes estimating, for each of a plurality of wireless devices, a buffer size corresponding to each of at least one radio bearer group (RBG), each of the at least one RBG being used by the wireless device to carry traffic via multiple bearers. The method further includes determining an uplink resource maximum allotment for each wireless device based, at least in part, on the estimated buffer sizes and a priority weight of each RBG used by the plurality of wireless devices. The priority weight of each RBG is based at least in part on quality of service (QoS) requirements of bearers carried by the RBG.

Claim (Index 16):
The node of  claim 14 , wherein the sorted RBGs include a highest weighted RBG and successively lower-weighted RBGs, and wherein determining the uplink resource maximum allotment for each wireless device comprises:\n estimating a total number of available uplink resources in a current transit time interval, TTI; when the estimated buffer size of the highest weighted RBG is greater than the total number of available uplink resources, assigning to the highest weighted RBG a maximum number of uplink resources equal to the total number of available uplink resources; when the estimated buffer size of the highest weighted RBG is less than the total number of available uplink resources, incrementally summing the estimated buffer size of the highest weighted RBG and the estimated buffer size of each successively lower-weighted RBG until a final RBG is added that renders the sum of the estimated buffer size of the highest weighted RBG and the estimated buffer size of each successive lower-weighted RBG greater than the total number of available uplink resources; and assigning, to the final RBG, a maximum number of uplink resources equal to a difference between the total number of available uplink resources and the sum of the estimated buffer size of the highest weighted RBG and a total of the estimated buffer size of each successively lower-weighted RBG before the final RBG.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17188
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15603937', '12012338', '14853722', '14221120', '14407838']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5858730717858893
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5078697666709773
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5780727412743981
- Mean Citation Score: 240.494056
- Max Citation Score: 244.23889
- Similarity Product: 148.29194664037524

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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