PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15989067
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["710", "003000"]

Abstract:
A modified serial peripheral interface (SPI) is provided in each of a master device and a plurality of slave devices that does not use a slave select line. The master device may thus engage in full-duplex serial communication with each slave device through an SPI MOSI line, an SPI MISO line, and an SPI clock line.

Claim (Index 1):
A master device, comprising:\n a serial bus including an output line and an input line; a serial interface configured to transmit an addressed frame to an addressed one of a plurality of slave devices over the output line and to receive non-addressed frames from each of the slave devices over the input line; and an address assignment engine configured to operate in an address assignment mode following a power-on reset of the master device, wherein the address assignment engine includes a clock source configured to drive a clock signal into a clock line in the serial bus during the address assignment mode and includes a local counter configured to count cycles of the clock signal during the assignment mode to determine a local count, and wherein the address assignment engine is further configured to identify an address for a corresponding one of the slave devices by a value of the local count when either the input line or the output line is discharged by the corresponding one of the slave devices.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.55
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14860568', '12884398', '13461787', '12598999', '15499640']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6464288302748825
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.545316008320467
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.636317548079441
- Mean Citation Score: 276.070418
- Max Citation Score: 396.41956
- Similarity Product: 339.6953142358303

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