PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16028772
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["455", "426100"]

Abstract:
The system and methods of the various embodiments enable fine grained network selection decisions. This may allow a mobile network operator, a cable operator, or a Wi-Fi network operator to define network selection rules that are not only based upon network availability, time, and location, but also on network signal strength, signal to noise ratio, link speed, and cellular network radio parameters. These rules may also be complimented with local device based policies and parameters, which may possibly be based on user preferences and/or network operator preferences. The system and methods of the various embodiments also prevent inadvertent Wi-Fi network selection decisions by incorporating a time threshold parameter which defines a time period for which a wireless device must have detected a specific Wi-Fi access point prior to performing network selection.

Claim (Index 39):
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon processor-executable software instructions configured to cause a processor to perform operations comprising:\n determining a time threshold value that identifies a minimum amount of time that a user equipment device should continuously remain in a coverage area associated with a second wireless communication network before attempting to transition from using a first wireless communication network to using the second wireless communication network; generating an enhanced network selection rule based on the time threshold value; and causing the user equipment device to evaluate a transition condition by sending the generated enhanced network selection rule to the user equipment device, the evaluation including:\n starting a timer in response to receiving a beacon that identifies a coverage area associated with the second wireless communication network, wherein the timer increments or decrements a time value; \n monitoring a continued presence of the beacon while the time value does not meet or exceed the time threshold value; \n determining whether the beacon was not present during the monitoring; \n stopping and resetting the timer in response to determining that the beacon was not present during the monitoring; and \n transitioning from using the first wireless communication network to using the second wireless communication network in response to determining that the beacon was present during the monitoring.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82278
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14604803', '13755218', '14434599', '14182959', '14156339']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6911577564458242
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5644237954965913
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.678484360350901
- Mean Citation Score: 264.482844
- Max Citation Score: 453.30496
- Similarity Product: 387.28956333892825

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