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 56):
A system comprising:\n first and second endpoint devices, each endpoint device including,\n a network port including a transmitter and a receiver; \n a plurality of serially-connected signal buffering devices, each signal buffering device including,\n a first port having a first transmitter and a first receiver coupled to a first plurality of buffers; and \n a second port having a second transmitter and a second receiver coupled to a second plurality of buffers, \n wherein the first endpoint device is connected to a first signal buffering device among the plurality of signal buffering devices, and an Nth signal buffering device among the plurality of signal buffering devices is connected to the second endpoint device to form a communication link comprising a serial chain of devices including N signal buffering devices, and wherein the first and second endpoint devices and the plurality of signal buffering devices are configured to, employ first sets of Ethernet Auto Negotiation (AN) Next Pages to write data to selected registers on a selected signal buffering devices; and employ second sets of Ethernet AN Next Pages to read data from selected registers on a selected signal buffering devices; and

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.61628
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13628640', '11272148', '12547414', '15383800', '11263514']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2380948273775321
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4836223045947585
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2626475750992547
- Mean Citation Score: 128.87356100000002
- Max Citation Score: 144.31114
- Similarity Product: 88.82643596693157

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

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