PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15968614
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["375", "219000"]

Abstract:
The present invention is directed to data communication systems and methods. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for transceivers to quickly identify FEC mode used in data communication. A transmitting transceiver embeds FEC mode information in a designated field of an alignment marker. The receiving transceiver acknowledges the receipt of the FEC mode information and processes the incoming data accordingly. There are other embodiments as well.

Claim (Index 1):
A communication system, the system comprising:\n a transceiver device comprising: a switching module for receiving incoming data streams from two or more communication lanes; an alignment module configured to align the incoming data streams and generate an aligned data stream; and an FEC module configured to encode the aligned data stream and generate an encoded data stream, the encoded data stream comprising a first alignment marker, the first alignment marker comprising a first region storing a first device message and second region storing an FEC mode message and a third region; wherein: the encoded data stream is encoded using a first FEC mode; the FEC mode message indicates the first FEC mode; the transceiver device sends the encoded data stream to a receiving entity; the transceiver device determines device compatibility and embeds a second device message in a second alignment marker if an acknowledgment message is not received from the receiving entity within a predetermined period of time; and an interface coupled to the two or more communication lanes, each of the lanes configured for a channel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15476323', '14536303', '15654446', '15405020', '15487045']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4368761606529917
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5339800702374845
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.446586551611441
- Mean Citation Score: 250.305218
- Max Citation Score: 359.0888
- Similarity Product: 352.6239150012016

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