PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16385960
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["455", "063100"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to supporting cooperative transmission in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, such as a wireless distribution system (WDS). A WDS includes a plurality of remote units each defining a home coverage cell. A selected remote unit can coordinate with a neighboring remote unit(s) to help mitigate inter-cell interference for a selected client device(s) located in an overlapping coverage area between the home coverage cell of the selected remote unit and a neighboring coverage cell(s) defined by the neighboring remote unit(s). The selected remote unit receives channel-data information from the selected client device(s) and forms a first radio frequency (RF) beam based on the channel-data information to distribute a downlink signal(s) to the selected client device. The selected remote unit coordinates with the neighboring remote unit(s) based on the channel-data information to form a second RF beam to distribute the downlink signal(s) to the selected client device.

Claim (Index 9):
A method for supporting cooperative transmissions in a communications system comprising a central unit and a plurality of remote units distributed over multiple floors of a building infrastructure, the method comprising:\n identifying at least one selected client device located in at least one overlapping coverage area between a home coverage cell of a selected remote unit among the plurality of remote units and at least one neighboring coverage cell defined by at least one neighboring remote unit among the plurality of remote units; receiving channel-data information from the at least one selected client device; forming a first radio frequency (RF) beam based on the channel-data information to distribute at least one first downlink signal to the at least one selected client device; coordinating with the at least one neighboring remote unit based on the channel-data information to form at least one second RF beam to distribute the at least one first downlink signal from the at least one neighboring remote unit to the at least one selected client device; identifying at least one second selected client device located within a boundary of the home coverage cell of the selected remote unit and outside the at least one overlapping coverage area; and distributing at least one second downlink signal to the at least one second selected client device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.41558
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15692771', '16113286', '15692815', '15490049', '15263999']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7318521516720211
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5781345117633271
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7164803876811517
- Mean Citation Score: 353.26380400000005
- Max Citation Score: 486.7489
- Similarity Product: 429.7748870828688

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

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