PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16139974
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["710", "305000"]

Abstract:
A power supply architecture for USB Type-C controllers is described herein. In an example embodiment, an integrated circuit (IC) controller comprises a power rail, a VDDD terminal, a VCONN terminal, and a VBUS terminal. The VDDD terminal, the VCONN terminal, and the VBUS terminal are coupled to the power rail, where a VCONN switch is coupled between the VCONN terminal and the power rail, and a VBUS regulator is coupled between the VBUS terminal and the power rail. The power rail is coupled to internal circuits of the IC controller and is configured to provide operating power to the internal circuits from any one of the VCONN terminal and the VBUS terminal.

Claim (Index 9):
A Universal Serial Bus (USB) device comprising:\n a USB Type-C connector comprising a VBUS line and a VCONN line; and an integrated circuit (IC) controller comprising:\n a VDDD terminal; \n a VCONN terminal coupled to the VCONN line of the USB Type-C connector; \n a VBUS terminal coupled to the VBUS line of the USB Type-C connector; and \n a power rail coupled to internal circuits of the IC controller; \n wherein the VDDD terminal, the VCONN terminal, and the VBUS terminal are coupled to the power rail, and wherein:\n a VCONN switch is coupled between the VCONN terminal and the power rail; and \n a VBUS regulator is coupled between the VBUS terminal and the power rail; \n \n wherein the power rail is configured to provide operating power to the internal circuits of the IC controller from one of the VCONN terminal and the VBUS terminal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.57143
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16123157', '15983596', '14866276', '15787340', '15196921']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.674424726289948
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4805360940077418
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6550358630617273
- Mean Citation Score: 211.725616
- Max Citation Score: 245.76451
- Similarity Product: 208.7783429892897

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

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