PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16174411
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["315", "077000"]

Abstract:
A method of operating a plurality of driving units for powering electronic units comprises interchanging a data frame including a bit sequence, between a master control unit and at least one of a plurality of driving units at slave nodes. A step of applying an ID field comprises indicating the driving unit address using a first bit sub-string comprising N bits, allowing the master control unit to identify whether data should be received or transmitted, or allowing each addressed driving unit to decode which action is required by the master control unit, using an R/T command bit, performing a length decoding step, for including information in the ID field regarding the type of instructions included in the data frame, using an F function bit, and assigning data bits to different electronic units or indicating in the length of the bit string in the data field, using a second bit sub-string.

Claim (Index 6):
The method of  claim 1 , the driving units comprising an input connection and an output connection for receiving address information and provide status information respectively,\n wherein the output connection of a driving unit is connected to the input connection of one different driving unit, the input connection of the first driving unit connected to an active voltage information, the output connection of the last driving unit of the plurality not being connected, each driving unit further comprising a direct communication bus to the master control unit, the method comprising setting the maximum value of a counter n equal to the number of driving units further comprising the steps: checking the status of the input connection of a driving unit, corresponding to the value of counter n, and if the status is active: providing, by the master control unit, a unique address to a driving unit on its corresponding value of counter n, subsequently sending back the address by the driving unit to the master control unit, verifying the programmed address of the driving unit for the value of counter n, and starting an error handling routine in case there is an error, otherwise: setting a flag for signalizing that the programming is finished for that driving unit on its corresponding value of counter n, subsequently switching the output connection of the driving unit to active state, increasing the value of the counter n by one, repeating the steps until the counter n reaches its maximum value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0641
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11519014', '13105762', '13495554', '15133864', '12336726']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6905567591741761
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4939167454023674
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6708927577969953
- Mean Citation Score: 163.67146
- Max Citation Score: 170.25339
- Similarity Product: 105.97610910689592

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

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