PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16011727
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["455", "435200"]

Abstract:
A method, system and apparatus for selecting an access point includes detecting a location and direction of motion of a mobile device, detecting a strength of signal from candidate access points and determining a location of such access points based upon at least one of the (i) location and direction of motion of the mobile device, (ii) access point location information known to the mobile device, and (iii) monitoring of the change in detected signal strength from candidate access points that occurs upon the movement of the mobile device. Embodiments of the system and apparatus way include a mobile terminal device or may include such a device and a plurality of access points that provide access to a network, such as a base station or a router that provide access to an enterprise network or a local area network that is connected to the internet.

Claim (Index 21):
A method for selecting an access point comprising:\n a mobile communication terminal moving from within a first coverage area of a first access point toward a second coverage area of a second access point, the mobile communication terminal comprising a processor connected to a non-transitory computer readable medium; and the mobile communication terminal determining a speed at which the mobile communication terminal is moving and at least one of a location of the mobile communication terminal and a direction of motion in which the mobile communication terminal is moving and the mobile communication terminal predicting a future location of the mobile communication terminal based on the determined speed and that at least one of the location and direction of motion; the mobile communication terminal saving the determined at least one of the location of the mobile communication terminal and the direction of motion in which the mobile communication terminal is moving; the mobile communication terminal monitoring a first signal strength of the first access point and a second signal strength of the second access point to determine whether the signal strength for the second access point changes during movement of the mobile communication terminal such that the mobile communication terminal determines that the second signal strength increases and the first signal strength decreases as the mobile communication terminal moves; the mobile communication terminal determining that the second access point provides improved connectivity to a network as compared to the first access point to which the mobile communication terminal is currently communicating with for access to the network based upon the monitored first and second signal strengths, at least one of the location of the mobile communication terminal and the direction of motion in which the mobile communication terminal is moving, and the predicted future location of the mobile communication terminal,\n wherein the improved connectivity is determined to be an improved connectivity in view of the predicted future location of the mobile communication terminal such that a momentary detection of the first access point having a stronger signal does not result in a selection of that access point when the subsequent movement of the mobile communication terminal to the predicted location indicates that the signal of the first access point will subsequently be weaker relative to the signal strength of the second access point; and \n the mobile communication terminal selecting the second access point for subsequent communications to register with the second access point for accessing the network via the second access point in response to the determining that the second access point provides the improved connectivity to the network as compared to the first access point.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32353
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11425714', '13310142', '13975203', '13257505', '12151775']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6727847012134949
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4666896504979346
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6521751961419389
- Mean Citation Score: 151.504284
- Max Citation Score: 155.1169
- Similarity Product: 116.30760802352428

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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