PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15918094
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["375", "258000"]

Abstract:
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to facilitating communications to respective circuit nodes in a manner that may also be useful for mitigating undesirable signal attenuation. As may be implemented in accordance with one or more embodiments, switchable isolation circuits, presented by at least one transformer and switch, are utilized to isolate adjacent data processing nodes on a bus in which each data processing node includes logic circuitry and processes signal therein. For each of the switchable isolation circuits, switching circuitry operates to mitigate communication propagation over the differential bus between adjacent data processing nodes, by switching the switchable isolation circuit for providing isolation. This approach may be utilized, for example, to assign sequential identification to daisy-chained circuit nodes upon start-up or reset, for use in addressing each node directly for further communication therewith.

Claim (Index 2):
The circuit of  claim 1 , wherein\n the data processing nodes are connected in series on the differential bus, each data processing node being configured and arranged to control operation of one of the switchable isolation circuits coupled thereto; and each switchable isolation circuit is configured and arranged with the data logic circuit to, during an initialization process in which the data logic circuit incrementally assigns an identification to each of the data processing nodes,\n mitigate signal propagation beyond the data processing node that controls operation thereof by switching the switching circuitry of the transformer to an off state and therein increasing impedance of the transformer, with the transformer coupled in series to signal propagation on the bus, and \n in response to the data logic circuit assigning an identification to said data processing node, facilitate signal propagation beyond said data processing node, for assigning identification to a further one of the data processing nodes, by switching the switching circuitry to an on state, thus decreasing impedance of the transformer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7093
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11509146', '13381033', '12897455', '10812314', '10834959']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4915480114768766
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4609083875789792
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4884840490870868
- Mean Citation Score: 149.033142
- Max Citation Score: 155.63069
- Similarity Product: 124.50324589527128

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

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