PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16222497
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["370", "329000"]

Abstract:
Slotted Aloha-NOMA (SAN) protocol is an uncoordinated, non-orthogonal, random access protocol that exploits the simplicity of SA (Slotted Aloha) and the superior throughput of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and its ability to resolve collisions via use of successive interference cancellation (SIC) receiver. In SAN protocol, the SIC receiver at the IoT gateway adaptively learns the number of active devices (which is not known a priori) using multiple hypothesis testing in order to successfully distinguish between signals transmitted from different IoT devices.

Claim (Index 16):
One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions for performing a method of running a software program on a computing device, the computing device operating under an operating system, the method including issuing instructions from the software program comprising: broadcasting a notification signal to notify a plurality of IoT devices that an IoT gateway is available to receive transmission packets over the transmission medium; receiving a superposed signal comprising a training sequence transmitted by each active IoT device of the plurality of IoT devices in response to the notification signal; determining a number of active IoT devices based upon the received superposed signal; setting a number of optimum power levels of a Successive Interference Cancellation (SIC) receiver to be equal to the number of active IoT devices if the number of active IoT devices is less than or equal to a maximum number of optimum power levels of the SIC receiver; and broadcasting the number of optimum power levels of the SIC receiver to the active IoT devices.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16104412', '12547092', '16093777', '14760342', '15444869']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4524472285679596
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5638743146423131
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.463589937175395
- Mean Citation Score: 192.25765
- Max Citation Score: 429.93173
- Similarity Product: 384.03341216502855

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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