PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15779291
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["370", "503000"]

Abstract:
An input/output (I/O) and control system for long distance communications and industrial applications having a bus and protocol for communications between field devices and a channel generator for monitoring and control of the field devices. The channel generator produces an offset square wave of configurable frequency on the bus, and sends a synchronization pulse of selected duration at the start of each bus scan cycle in a pulse train cycle to reset counters in the field devices before the bus scan cycle is repeated, to ensure field devices are synchronized, transmitters transmit on the correct channel, and receivers sample the pulse cycle at the correct time. Changing the synchronization pulse length increases bandwidth for shorter, less noisy and more stable systems and inversely decreases bandwidth for increased noise immunity and distance for longer, noisier and less stable systems.

Claim (Index 12):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the high voltage level portions in the cycles of the I/O channels in the bus scan cycles can vary in at least one of duration within a cycle, and start of a rising edge of the high voltage level portion within a cycle, depending on whether the cycles are pulse width modulated as a mark or a space, the synchronization pulse is at the high voltage level for a selected duration of time depending on the channel bandwidth, and detection of the synchronization pulse employs a detection window having a range between the duration of the synchronization pulse and a mark and the duration of synchronization pulse and a space for detection of the synchronization pulse regardless of whether the last one of the I/O channels has a mark or a space.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83951
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16320419', '15779327', '12219844', '10410362', '11259520']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.56510670923381
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.527905875170797
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5613866258275086
- Mean Citation Score: 223.951472
- Max Citation Score: 354.167
- Similarity Product: 277.4676634649038

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

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