PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15749650
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["709", "236000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for register Read and Write operations over Auto Negotiation Next Pages. Register Reads and Writes are implemented using sequences of Auto Negotiation (AN) Next Page messages. The embodiments define mechanisms to use AN Next Pages to carry write and read instructions. It defines a bi-directional communication mechanism to allow writes to be confirmed and read data to be returned to the requestor. Sequences of several AN Next Pages are used to assemble full address and data fields, when necessary. Two link partners (endpoints or an endpoint and an intermediate partner) exchange AN Next Pages with address and data information. The method uses a unique device address assigned to each device discovered in the serial chain to enable write and read operations to specific devices.

Claim (Index 57):
The system of  claim 56 , wherein the first endpoint device is configured to:\n transmit a Write sequence of AN Next Pages to write data to a register in a signal buffering device from among the plurality of signal buffering devices, wherein the Write sequence comprises first, second, and third Next Pages; and wherein each of the plurality of signal buffering devices is configured to,\n one of be configured with a device address or generate a device address for itself; \n receive AN Next Pages transmitted from the first endpoint device; \n determine if an AN Next Page that is received includes an address corresponding to the device address for the signal buffering device, and if so, \n determine if the AN Next Page is a first Next Page in a Write sequence, and if so,\n receive a second Next Page in the Write sequence sent from the first endpoint containing a Management Data Input/Output (MDIO) address for a register to which data is to be written; \n receive a third Next Page in the Write sequence sent from the first endpoint containing data to be written; and \n write the data to the register identified by the MDIO address in the second Next Page in the Write sequence; \n \n otherwise, if an AN Next Page that is received includes an address that does not correspond to the device address for the signal buffer device, forwarding the AN Next Page to a next device of the plurality of serially-connected signal buffering devices or forwarding the AN Next Page to the second endpoint device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.61628
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13628640', '11272148', '12547414', '15383800', '11263514']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2629368113963771
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4733828097257391
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2839814112293133
- Mean Citation Score: 128.87356100000002
- Max Citation Score: 144.31114
- Similarity Product: 99.07442497353551

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