PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15987808
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["375", "356000"]

Abstract:
The present invention is directed to data communication. In certain embodiments, the present invention provides switching mechanism for choosing between redundant communication links. Data received from a first set of communication links are processed to have alignment markers removed, and first figure of merit value is determined based on the data without alignment markers. Similarly, a second figure of merit value is determined for the data received from the second set of communication links. A switch selects between the first set of communication links and the second set of communication links based on their respective figure of merit values. Alignment markers are inserted into the data transmitted through the selected set of data links. There are other embodiments as well.

Claim (Index 19):
A SerDes system comprising:\n a first SerDes device having a first plurality of data lanes and a second plurality of data lanes; a first input port configured to receive a first plurality of data streams from the first plurality of data lanes, the first plurality of data lanes comprising n data lanes, n being greater than 1; a second input port configured to receive a second plurality of data streams from the second plurality of data lanes; a first alignment marker (AM) removing module configured to remove AMs from the first plurality of data streams to generate a third plurality of data streams; a first monitoring module configured to determine a first coding error amount associated with the third plurality of data streams; a first figure of merit (FOM) module configured to calculate a first FOM value based the first coding error amount and/or output from a first forward error correction (FEC) module; a second FOM module configured to calculate a second FOM value associated with the second plurality of data streams; a switch configured to output a fifth plurality of data streams selected between the first plurality of data streams and the second plurality of data streams based at least on a threshold value for the first FOM value and the second FOM value; and an AM insertion module configured to insert AMs into a fourth plurality of data streams.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13115
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15673352', '15789284', '15691023', '14580737', '14304635']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4255526759307962
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5716051971054957
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4401579280482662
- Mean Citation Score: 259.719352
- Max Citation Score: 443.81592
- Similarity Product: 406.6328411874104

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

Dataset: test