PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16037465
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["315", "294000"]

Abstract:
In a Power over Ethernet (PoE) system, a Powered Device (PD) having circuitry to measure the load current from a Power Sourcing Equipment (PSE) in the PD. Circuitry compares the measured load current with a first threshold. Circuitry automatically generates load pulses for signaling the PSE, that power to the PD should be maintained.

Claim (Index 18):
An integrated circuit (IC) for use in a power delivery (PD) device of a power over Ethernet (PoE) system, the IC comprising:\n first and second voltage supply terminals associated with the PoE system; a return terminal associated with a load; a first stage includes a first transistor coupled between the return terminal and a sense node, and a first resistor coupled between the sense node and the second voltage supply terminal; a second stage includes a second transistor coupled between the return terminal and an MPS node, and a second resistor coupled between the MPS node and the sense node; a comparator configured to assert a maintain power signature (MPS) enable signal when a sense voltage at the sense node is less than a first MPS reference threshold, and configured to reset the MPS enable signal when the sense voltage is greater than the first MPS reference threshold; a timing logic configured to enable the first stage and disable the second stage when the MPS enable signal is reset, and configured to disable the first stage and enable the second stage when the MPS enable signal is asserted; and a MPS generation circuit configured to generate a MPS pulse, at the MPS node, upon receiving the MPS enable signal, the MPS generation circuit configured to regulate an amplitude of the MPS pulse based on a second MPS reference threshold.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.54762
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14867635', '15594547', '14791969', '14288103', '11865966']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7092011605492295
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5250346683192505
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6907845113262316
- Mean Citation Score: 251.80740800000004
- Max Citation Score: 335.71964
- Similarity Product: 265.26788858363153

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

Dataset: test