PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16029840
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["710", "305000"]

Abstract:
A system side interface of a PHY chip used in conjunction with a 100 GBASE backplane, sends and receives data using an NRZ signal format, but at a data rate of between about 26.5 Gbps/per lane to 27.2 Gbps/per lane, which is consistent with the PAM 4 signaling protocol. Thus, chip-to-chip communications between a PHY chip and a switch or controller chip can use an “overclocked” NRZ signaling format, reducing the amount of logic needed, which in turn can reduce signal latency, and reduce the chip area and power consumption required to implement the logic.

Claim (Index 1):
A switch controller including:\n switch circuitry coupled to a backplane via first PHY circuitry, the first PHY circuitry configured to communicate with the switch circuitry via a first signaling protocol at an overclocked signaling rate, the overclocked signaling rate matching a signaling rate associated with a backplane signaling protocol; control circuitry coupled to the backplane via second PHY circuitry, the second PHY circuitry configured to communicate with the control circuitry via the first signaling protocol, and at the overclocked signaling rate; and a backplane coupling the first PHY circuitry to the second PHY circuitry, the backplane configured to communicate with the first PHY circuitry and the second PHY circuitry using the backplane signaling protocol at the signaling rate associated with the backplane signaling protocol.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.58209
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15082204', '13628067', '13739782', '14614829', '12381205']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6939407105064992
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6048817689112033
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6850348163469696
- Mean Citation Score: 356.912026
- Max Citation Score: 556.6637599999998
- Similarity Product: 464.6723178830432

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