PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15901222
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["710", "316000"]

Abstract:
A microcontroller includes a general purpose input/output (GPIO) port having a plurality of bits coupled to a plurality of external pins; a first set of registers for providing at least one of first control and data input/output functionality of the GPIO port; a second set of registers for providing at least one of second control and data input/output functionality of the GPIO port; and a multiplexer and associated select register for controlling the multiplexer to control said GPIO port through either said first or second register set.

Claim (Index 25):
A method for operating a micorcontroller comprising a plurality of general purpose input/output (GPIO) ports, wherein each port has a plurality of bits, wherein each port comprises a first set of registers for providing at least one of first control and data input/output functionality of the GPIO port, wherein each bit of the first set of registers is assigned to a respective external pin and a second set of registers for providing at least one of second control and data input/output functionality of the GPIO port, and a peripheral pin select circuit which is programmable to assign an external pin to one bit of any of the second set of regsiters, the method comprising:\n programming the peripheral pin select circuit to assign bits from different GPIO ports to form a virtual GPIO port; and when accessing the virtual GPIO port controlling each port assigned to the virtual GPIO port to switch for an assigned bit to the second register set of the respective GPIO port through respective multiplexers to control respective bits of the virtual GPIO port.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11364
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13627378', '15064964', '15864871', '15097237', '14253399']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.654366118807655
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5278667962897313
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6417161865558627
- Mean Citation Score: 210.139182
- Max Citation Score: 367.50024
- Similarity Product: 349.4908572263289

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

Dataset: test