PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15915084
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["710", "111000"]

Abstract:
A connection management method for a plurality of networked devices, the method constituted of: assigning a priority value to each of the devices, the priority value representing a priority level associated with the respective device; receiving a plurality of connection requests, each of the connection requests being associated with a respective one of the plurality of devices; for each of the received connection requests, tracking the amount of time the respective device has been waiting for connection; for each of the received connection requests, assigning an arbitration wait time value representing the tracked amount of time; responsive to the assigned priority values and the assigned arbitration wait time values, connecting the device associated with one of the received connection requests to an expander port; and responsive to the connection, adjusting the respective priority value assigned to the connected device.

Claim (Index 1):
A connection management method for a plurality of networked devices, the method comprising:\n assigning a priority value to each of the devices, said priority value representing a priority level associated with the respective device; receiving a plurality of connection requests, each of said connection requests being associated with a respective one of the plurality of devices; for each of said received connection requests, tracking the amount of time the respective device has been waiting for connection; for each of said received connection requests, assigning an arbitration wait time value representing said tracked amount of time; responsive to said assigned priority values and said assigned arbitration wait time values, connecting the device associated with one of said received connection requests to an expander port; and responsive to said connection, adjusting said respective priority value assigned to said connected device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.0
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12507859', '11390182', '15297625', '13776160', '13709102']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6998059960898542
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5132294607936008
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6811483425602288
- Mean Citation Score: 276.12127200000003
- Max Citation Score: 317.42615
- Similarity Product: 225.1504758729189

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test