PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16109994
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["710", "014000"]

Abstract:
Various techniques for enabling the control and monitoring of a USB device mode controller to a USB-C connector, for the performance of a USB device mode data connection, are disclosed herein. In an example, a computing system that includes multiple USB-C connectors but a single USB device mode controller may manage the mapping of the controller to a particular connector, through operations that identify the mapping and the characteristics of the connector, process a request to change the mapping of the device mode controller, and perform the change to the mapping of the device mode controller. Such a change may include a disconnection or reassignment of a particular USB-C connector to the controller. Further examples to determine the availability of a USB device mode controller, and respond to a scenario where the USB device mode controller is not available, are also disclosed.

Claim (Index 9):
At least one machine readable storage medium, comprising a plurality of instructions that, responsive to being executed with processor circuitry of a computing system including a USB device mode controller, a first USB-C connector, and a second USB-C connector, cause the computing system to manage the USB device mode controller with electronic operations that:\n in response to an attempted data connection from a remote computing system via the first USB-C connector, determine availability of the USB device mode controller to control the first USB-C connector, wherein the attempted data connection occurs with the first USB-C connector configured as an upstream facing port; in response to a determination that the USB device mode controller is not available on the computing system to control the first USB-C connector, perform a data role swap of the first USB-C connector to configure the first USB-C connector as a downstream facing port; and attempt performance of the attempted data connection with the remote computing system via the first USB-C connector, with the first USB-C connector configured as a downstream facing port.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 54.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.40625
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15278128', '14582160', '15714898', '14927336', '14865266']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.655787495969607
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5041289893566335
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6406216453083097
- Mean Citation Score: 192.36222200000003
- Max Citation Score: 304.74567
- Similarity Product: 258.11079186129933

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

Dataset: test