PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15742850
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["710", "061000"]

Abstract:
Methods and circuitry for low-speed bus time stamping and triggering are presented in this disclosure. A master device and slave devices can be interfaced via a communication link that comprises a data line and a clock line. The master device generates and controls a clock signal on the clock line, and sends a synchronization command over the data line to the slave devices. In response to the synchronization command, the master device receives timestamp information of an event detected at each slave device. The master device tracks transitions and frequencies of the clock signal, and determines a time of the event based on the timestamp information, the tracked transitions and the frequencies. The master device can further send to each slave device delay setting information for generating a trigger signal at that slave device based on transitions of the clock signal, the synchronization command and the delay setting information.

Claim (Index 15):
An apparatus comprising:\n an interface circuit for coupling to a communication link that carries a clock signal; and a control circuit to track a number of selected transitions of the clock signal on the communication link between a synchronization command received via the communication link and a detection of an event, the interface circuit to transmit, via the communication link, information about an elapsed time between the synchronization command and the detection of the event, the information based on the number of selected transitions of the clock signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38806
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14949534', '13901771', '14616572', '15295222', '14595030']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.715384258256097
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4977770824944796
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6936235406799353
- Mean Citation Score: 254.894122
- Max Citation Score: 266.9466
- Similarity Product: 194.8185795876503

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

Dataset: test