PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15918094
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["375", "258000"]

Abstract:
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to facilitating communications to respective circuit nodes in a manner that may also be useful for mitigating undesirable signal attenuation. As may be implemented in accordance with one or more embodiments, switchable isolation circuits, presented by at least one transformer and switch, are utilized to isolate adjacent data processing nodes on a bus in which each data processing node includes logic circuitry and processes signal therein. For each of the switchable isolation circuits, switching circuitry operates to mitigate communication propagation over the differential bus between adjacent data processing nodes, by switching the switchable isolation circuit for providing isolation. This approach may be utilized, for example, to assign sequential identification to daisy-chained circuit nodes upon start-up or reset, for use in addressing each node directly for further communication therewith.

Claim (Index 3):
The circuit of  claim 2  wherein, for each switchable isolation circuit and the data processing node configured to control said switchable isolation circuit:\n a first winding of the transformer is connected in series with a bus line of the differential bus between the data processing node and an adjacent one of the plurality of data processing nodes that is further on the differential bus from the data logic circuit; and \n a second winding of the transformer is connected to the switching circuitry, the switching circuitry being configured and arranged to selectively create either an open circuit or a short circuit connection across terminals of the second winding in response to the logic circuitry in one of the plurality of data processing nodes, and therein switching impedance of the first winding of the transformer into a low or high impedance state, to correspondingly transmit or mitigate passage of signals through the first winding to the adjacent one of the plurality of data processing nodes.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7093
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11509146', '13381033', '12897455', '10812314', '10834959']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.490818462972629
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.463635658563473
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4881001825317134
- Mean Citation Score: 149.033142
- Max Citation Score: 155.63069
- Similarity Product: 121.96270522433636

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

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