PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15963765
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["439", "078000"]

Abstract:
A modular jack connector compensates for plug characteristics via a controlled primary compensation in the immediate vicinity of the connector interface. A jack contact assembly is positioned within a jack housing and includes first and second sets of elongate contacts each having a plug contact portion and a signal output portion. Each elongate contact is configured such that their respective plug contact portions are coplanar and a signal path is defined between their plug contact portions and their signal output portions. A flexible circuit board is coupled proximate to the plug contact portions, and configured to provide capacitance compensation between respective contacts engaged thereby, wherein the capacitance compensation is offset from a signal path defined between the plug contact portions and the corresponding signal output portions.

Claim (Index 1):
A network interface connector, comprising:\n a jack housing; a rigid printed circuit board (PCB); a jack contact assembly positioned within the jack housing and further comprising a plurality of elongate contacts each having a plug contact engagement portion and a PCB mounting portion, wherein each of the elongate contacts are configured such that a signal path is defined between their respective plug contact engagement portion and PCB mounting portion, and each of the plug contact engagement portions for the plurality of elongate contacts are substantially coplanar with respect to each other; and one or more flexible circuit boards (FCBs) coupled to each of the plurality of elongate contacts via respective FCB mounting portions and offset from the signal path, wherein the one or more FCBs comprise a flexible substrate with at least first and second copper layers on opposing sides thereof and configured to provide a controlled capacitance compensation between respective contacts engaged thereby and offset from the defined signal paths.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03077
- Patent Class: 439.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15786795', '11752521', '11379100', '12539641', '11379712']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7713295068473859
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.479627393106667
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.742159295473314
- Mean Citation Score: 232.894476
- Max Citation Score: 247.0994
- Similarity Product: 202.6209612865448

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