PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16139974
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["710", "305000"]

Abstract:
A power supply architecture for USB Type-C controllers is described herein. In an example embodiment, an integrated circuit (IC) controller comprises a power rail, a VDDD terminal, a VCONN terminal, and a VBUS terminal. The VDDD terminal, the VCONN terminal, and the VBUS terminal are coupled to the power rail, where a VCONN switch is coupled between the VCONN terminal and the power rail, and a VBUS regulator is coupled between the VBUS terminal and the power rail. The power rail is coupled to internal circuits of the IC controller and is configured to provide operating power to the internal circuits from any one of the VCONN terminal and the VBUS terminal.

Claim (Index 15):
A method of operating an integrated circuit (IC) controller in a Universal Serial Bus (USB) Type-C device, the method comprising:\n receiving input voltage on one of a VCONN terminal and a VBUS terminal of the IC controller; wherein the IC controller comprises the VCONN terminal, the VBUS terminal, a VDDD terminal, and a power rail coupled to internal circuits of the IC controller, wherein the VDDD terminal, the VCONN terminal, and the VBUS terminal are coupled to the power rail, and wherein:\n a VCONN switch is coupled between the VCONN terminal and the power rail; and \n a VBUS regulator is coupled between the VBUS terminal and the power rail; and \n providing, via the power rail, operating power to the internal circuits of the IC controller from the one of the VCONN terminal and the VBUS terminal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.57143
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16123157', '15983596', '14866276', '15787340', '15196921']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6741456432611405
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4819504027062333
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6549261192056498
- Mean Citation Score: 211.725616
- Max Citation Score: 245.76451
- Similarity Product: 205.22661765568256

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

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