PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15904382
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["370", "329000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of a method, a device and a computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for controlling access to a communications medium involves replenishing a credit value assigned to a communications node in a communications round, granting or denying access to the communications medium to the communications node during the communications round based on the credit value, and controlling the credit value in response to granting or denying access to the communications medium to the communications node during the communications round.

Claim (Index 3):
The method of  claim 2 , wherein replenishing the credit value assigned to the communications node in the communications round with the fixed replenishment value at the start of the communications round comprises replenishing the credit value assigned to the communications node in the communications round with the fixed replenishment value before granting or denying access to the communications medium to the communications node during the communications round based on the credit value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43243
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['09925862', '12076735', '10554726', '12610146', '11879925']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5398370629222371
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4815296860222852
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5340063252322419
- Mean Citation Score: 139.40728800000002
- Max Citation Score: 147.12057
- Similarity Product: 96.52184746477604

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