PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16005318
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["370", "229000"]

Abstract:
A method for controlling a distributed system. The distributed system includes a plurality of nodes and a bus. The plurality of nodes is associated with a plurality of timers. The method includes assigning a plurality of timer values including a first timer value and a second timer value to the plurality of timers in response to no data being loaded on the bus, defining an initial timer value equal to the first timer value, counting down the plurality of timer values with a given rate by activating the plurality of timers, stopping counting down the plurality of timer values in response to the first timer value reaching zero by stopping the plurality of timers, replacing the first timer value with a reference value, and sending data from the first node to the bus. The first timer value is assigned to a first timer of the plurality of timers, and the second timer value is assigned to a second timer of the plurality of timers. The first timer is associated with a first node of the plurality of nodes and the second timer is associated with a second node of the plurality of nodes. The first timer value is the smallest timer value among the plurality of timer values, and the second timer value is the largest timer value among the plurality of timer values. The reference value is smaller than the initial timer value and is larger than the second timer value.

Claim (Index 9):
A method for controlling a distributed system comprising a plurality of nodes and a bus, the plurality of nodes associated with a plurality of timers, the method comprising:\n sending data from an i th  node of the plurality of nodes to the bus; sending a j th  token of a plurality of tokens from the i th  node to a j th  node of the plurality of nodes, where 1\u2264i\u2264N is an integer number associated with the i th  node, 1\u2264j\u2264N is an integer number associated with the j th  node where j\u2260i, and N is the number of the plurality of nodes; sending data from the j th  node to the bus in response to the j th  node being active; removing the j th  node from the plurality of nodes in response to the j th  node not being active; assigning a plurality of timer values to the plurality of timers, the plurality of timer values including a k th  timer value assigned to a k th  timer of the plurality of timers, and an l th  timer value assigned to an l th  timer of the plurality of timers, the k th  timer associated with a k th  node of the plurality of nodes and the l th  timer associated with an l th  node of the plurality of nodes, where 1\u2264k\u2264N and 1\u2264l\u2264N are integer parameters where k\u2260j and l\u2260j, the k th  timer value being a smallest timer value among the plurality of timer values, and the l th  timer value being a largest timer value among the plurality of timer values, the k th  timer value and the l th  timer value satisfying a condition according to: b<2a, where a is the k th  timer value and b is the l th  timer value; defining an initial timer value, the initial timer value being equal to the k th  timer value; counting down the plurality of timer values with a given rate by activating the plurality of timers; stopping counting down the plurality of timer values by stopping the plurality of timers in response to the k th  timer value reaching zero; replacing the k th  timer value with a reference value, the reference value being smaller than the initial timer value and being larger than the l th  timer value; and sending data from the k th  node to the bus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 4.21311
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12938904', '13282781', '12371534', '13060089', '09858555']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.516233430119905
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5009956415454361
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.514709651262458
- Mean Citation Score: 161.10136
- Max Citation Score: 173.02614
- Similarity Product: 95.6323181444335

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

Dataset: test