PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15908648
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["361", "727000"]

Abstract:
The embodiments herein describe a function module that is removably mounted in a chassis. For example, the chassis may be a server chassis which stores a plurality of blade servers which uses hardware components and a fan module mounted in the function module to increase the storage capacity or computing performance of the blade servers. The function module can include PCIe cards, GPU cards, hard drives, and the like which are communicatively coupled to the blade servers in the chassis. In one embodiment, the function module is slidably mounted onto the chassis so that when pulled by the system administrator, the function module slides out of a front or rear side of the chassis. Doing so provides room for the system administrator to then add and/or remove the hardware components and the fan module mounted in the function module.

Claim (Index 11):
A method, comprising:\n moving a cover to access an expansion unit disposed in a chassis, wherein the expansion unit comprises a function module that supports one or more pluggable hardware components and a fan configured to cool the pluggable hardware components, a slide on which is disposed the function module, and a cable coupled to the function module; sliding the function module out of the chassis, wherein the function module remains connected to the cable to permit the one or more pluggable hardware components to communicate with a computing device in the chassis when the function module is slid out from the chassis; and plugging at least one pluggable hardware component into the function module, wherein the function module comprises a connector substrate comprising a plurality of connectors, wherein the one or more pluggable hardware components plug into the plurality of connectors, wherein the connector substrate is configured to communicatively couple the one or more pluggable hardware components to the cable, and wherein the connector substrate is attached to a first side of a cage in the function module, wherein the one or more pluggable hardware components are disposed between the connector substrate and a second side of the cage, wherein the second side is opposite the first side.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02703
- Patent Class: 361.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15908585', '11925243', '15019822', '09728669', '09651140']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8298960082905096
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4772840301976656
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7946348104812252
- Mean Citation Score: 156.37741599999995
- Max Citation Score: 181.74255
- Similarity Product: 127.9329753121376

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