PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15904620
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["439", "676000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein are various communications systems allowing for multiple contacts points between plug contacts in a communications plug and plug interface contacts (PICs) in a communications jack. In some disclosed implementations, a communications plug including a first and a second plug contact mated with a communications jack having a first and a second plug PIC may form a plurality of plug/jack interfaces. The plug/jack interfaces may form multiple current paths between the communications plug and the communications jack. When a signal propagates between the communications plug and the communications jack, it may be split in the communications plug between a first current path and a second current path, and recombined in the communications jack after traveling through the plurality of plug/jack interfaces.

Claim (Index 1):
A communications plug, comprising:\n a conductive shell; and a printed circuit board (PCB) assembly positioned at least partially in the conductive shell, the PCB assembly comprising:\n a PCB orientated parallel relative to a longitudinal direction of the conductive shell; and \n a plurality of plug contacts attached to the PCB, the plurality of plug contacts comprising:\n a first subset of plug contacts, each of the first subset of plug contacts to mate with two plug interface contacts (PICS) of a mating communications jack; and \n second, third, and fourth subsets of plug contacts, each of the second, third, and fourth subsets of plug contacts to mate with at least one PIC of the mating communications jack.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33929
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15844706', '15157940', '15067274', '14463145', '15187996']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7624265405018261
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5167808399230667
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7378619704439502
- Mean Citation Score: 314.4991940000001
- Max Citation Score: 336.37604
- Similarity Product: 291.41240336607217

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

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