PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15869883
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["375", "267000"]

Abstract:
An access point ( 1 ) for use in a point to multipoint wireless network comprises a sector antenna ( 8 ) and an antenna array of antenna elements ( 7 ), the antenna elements not including the sector antenna, and the antenna elements being arranged to receive signals from the same sector as the sector antenna. A first beamformer ( 10 ) is configurable to form a first beam ( 11 ) from signals received at the antenna array and a selector switch ( 5 ) is switchable to at least a first state in which signals received at the sector antenna ( 8 ) are connected to a first receiver ( 2 ), and a second state in which signals received from the first beamformer ( 10 ) are connected to the first receiver ( 2 ). A scheduler is configured to set the selector switch ( 5 ) to the first state for at least a first receive timeslot and to the second state for at least a second receive timeslot.

Claim (Index 10):
A method of operating an access point in a point to multipoint wireless network comprising the access point and a plurality of subscriber modules, the access point comprising a first beamformer and a second beamformer, the method comprising:\n receiving signals at a sector antenna from a sector of an area of coverage of the access point; receiving signals at an antenna array of antenna elements, the antenna elements not including the sector antenna, the antenna elements being arranged to receive signals from the same sector as the sector antenna; configuring a first beamformer configurable to form a first beam from signals received at the antenna array; setting a selector switch to first state for at least a first receive timeslot and setting the selector switch to the second state for at least a second receive timeslot, wherein, in the first state of the selector switch, signals received at the sector antenna are connected to a first receiver, and in the second state of the selector switch, signals received from the first beamformer are connected to the first receiver.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.85714
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15726127', '15074767', '15175204', '15074821', '11966556']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4966422906527197
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5052958862977134
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4975076502172191
- Mean Citation Score: 246.623636
- Max Citation Score: 272.87134
- Similarity Product: 193.71003646646497

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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