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 5):
The circuit of  claim 1 , wherein\n for each of the data processing nodes, one of the plurality of switchable isolation circuits is assigned thereto and configured and arranged to mitigate signal propagation on the differential bus beyond the data processing node to which it is assigned; and each of the plurality of switchable isolation circuits is configured and arranged to mitigate the signal propagation by decoupling a winding of the transformer during an initiation event in which the data processing node to which the switchable isolation circuit is assigned is provided with an identification or address by the data logic circuit, and to cease mitigating the signal propagation thereafter by coupling the decoupled winding.

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): 0.49011348397528
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4662731953310969
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4877294551108617
- Mean Citation Score: 149.033142
- Max Citation Score: 155.63069
- Similarity Product: 119.5077478078544

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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