PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15965102
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["363", "021140"]

Abstract:
A method for communicating with a power converter comprises initiating a communication sequence by sensing a first distortion of a sensed waveform during a discharge period of a first power transfer cycle of the power converter. The sensed waveform is proportional to a secondary current of the power converter. At a primary side of the power converter, a data bit is received from a secondary side of the power converter, by sensing a second distortion to represent one state of the data bit and sending an absence of the second distortion to represent another state of the data bit. The secondary distortion is applied to the secondary current during the discharge period of a subsequent power transfer cycle.

Claim (Index 18):
A secondary-side control circuit for a power converter comprising:\n a switching circuit coupled to a secondary winding of a transformer through a synchronous rectifier (SR) switch, the switching circuit configured to distort a waveform across the secondary winding to represent a data bit; a message encoder connected to the switching circuit and configured to encode a decoded protocol message to generate an encoded message, the encoded message defining a switching sequence of the SR switch; a protocol decoder interposed between a pair of data terminals having a sink device connected thereto and the message encoder, the protocol decoder configured to generate the decoded protocol message in response to a protocol message received from the sink device; and an SR controller connected to the switching circuit, the switching circuit controlling the SR switch with a control signal from the SR controller and the encoded message from the message encoder.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43137
- Patent Class: 363.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15626347', '10914802', '14565010', '10881202', '15202629']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8145785401154062
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5161700479961292
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7847376909034786
- Mean Citation Score: 206.303548
- Max Citation Score: 335.55505
- Similarity Product: 291.90673426350946

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

Dataset: test