PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16143056
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["710", "316000"]

Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a system includes first and second devices. The first device detects whether a cable is connected to the first device in a first state or a second state. The first device receives, from the second device, status information indicative of whether the cable is connected to the second device in the first state or the second state. The first device switches allocation of signal lines to contact pins of a connector of the first device to which the cable is connected, based on connection states of the first and second devices. The second device detects whether the cable is connected to the second device in the first state or the second state. The second device transmits, to the first device, a result of detection as the status information.

Claim (Index 1):
A system comprising:\n a first device having a first receptacle; a second device having a second receptacle; and a cable that connects the first device and the second device and that comprises a first connector that connects to the first receptacle of the first device at one end of the cable and a second connector that connects to the second receptacle of the second device at another end of the cable, each of the first connector and the second connector being a point-symmetrical configuration, four connection states including a normal-normal state, a flipped-normal state, a normal-flipped state and a flipped-flipped state being applicable to a connection state of the first receptacle and the first connector and a connection state of the second receptacle and the second connector, wherein the second device comprises a second controller that detects whether the connection state of the second receptacle and the second connector is a normal state or a flipped state and transmits a result of the detection as status information to the first device via the cable, the first device comprises: a switch that switches allocation of a plurality of signal lines to a plurality of contact pins of the first receptacle; and a first controller that detects whether the connection state of the first receptacle and the first connector is a normal state or a flipped state, and determines one of the four connection states based on a result of the determination and the status information to control the switch.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.13043
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16134618', '15337357', '14805277', '13470353', '14959006']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6078607216435012
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4968473577272259
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5967593852518738
- Mean Citation Score: 165.18736800000005
- Max Citation Score: 212.61578
- Similarity Product: 143.85832892719387

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