PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15904211
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["370", "401000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments herein describe a SoC that includes a programmable NoC that can be reconfigured to support different interface communication protocols. In one embodiment, the NoC includes ingress and egress logic blocks which permit hardware elements in the SoC (e.g., processors, memory, programmable logic blocks, etc.) to transmit and receive data using the NoC. The ingress and egress logic blocks may first be configured to support a particular communication protocol for interfacing with the hardware elements. However, at a later time, the user may wish to reconfigure the ingress and egress logic blocks to support a different communication protocol. In response, the SoC can reconfigure the NoC such that the ingress and egress logic blocks support the new communication protocol used by the hardware elements. In this manner, the programmable NoC can support multiple communication protocols used to interface with other hardware elements in the SoC.

Claim (Index 19):
An integrated circuit, comprising:\n a first hardware logic block; a second hardware logic block; and a NoC, the NoC comprising:\n an ingress logic block connected to the first hardware logic block, wherein the ingress logic block comprises a first encoder and a second encoder, wherein, when the NoC is operation, the ingress logic block is configured to activate one of the first and second encoders and deactivate the other encoder, and \n an egress logic block connected to the second hardware logic block, wherein the egress logic block comprises a first decoder and a second decoder, wherein, when the NoC is operation, the egress logic block is configured to activate one of the first and second decoders and deactivate the other decoder.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36232
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15799673', '15608673', '13657858', '14144258', '14620710']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5663125648644457
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5078106803413284
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.560462376412134
- Mean Citation Score: 207.688134
- Max Citation Score: 241.8728
- Similarity Product: 154.17789011592862

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

Dataset: test