PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16024063
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["711", "147000"]

Abstract:
A system and method for communication link management in a credit-based system is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes first and second functional circuit blocks implemented on an integrated circuit and being able to communicate with one another through establishment of source synchronous links. The first functional circuit block includes a write queue for storing data and information regarding write requests sent from the second functional circuit block. The write queue includes credit management circuitry arranged to convey one or more credits to the second functional circuit block responsive to receiving one or more write requests therefrom. Responsive to receiving the one or more credits and in the absence of any pending additional requests, the second functional circuit block may deactivate a link with the first functional circuit block.

Claim (Index 10):
A method comprising:\n establishing a communications link to a first functional circuit block from a second functional circuit block, the communications link being a source synchronous communications link; sending one or more write requests and data corresponding to each of the one or more write requests from the second functional circuit block to the first functional circuit block; storing each of the one or more write requests and data corresponding to each of the one or more write requests in a write queue implemented in the first functional circuit block; conveying one or more credits to the second functional circuit block from credit management circuitry implemented in the first functional circuit block; responsive to receiving the credits and determining that there are no pending requests, the second functional circuit block deactivating the communications link.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98551
- Patent Class: 711.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13859000', '13944462', '11047548', '13860885', '13724955']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5038752341598185
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4654260859584463
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5000303193396813
- Mean Citation Score: 164.84405199999995
- Max Citation Score: 181.22203
- Similarity Product: 145.31994203400134

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

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