PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16082118
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["710", "316000"]

Abstract:
In cases where local devices ( 6, 6 a ) support a master transfer function, a portion of the memory space, of each of local devices ( 6, 6 a ), to be controlled from system host ( 2 ) is mapped onto a memory space on system host ( 2 ) side and a plurality of local devices ( 6, 6 a ) are reconfigured as one virtual local device. This provides information processing apparatus ( 4 ) which, in cases of connection with the plurality of local devices ( 6, 6 a ), resolves resource shortage on system host ( 2 ) side by appropriately mapping necessary registers of local devices ( 6, 6 a ) onto a memory space for system host ( 2 ).

Claim (Index 1):
An information processing apparatus that is connected to a system host via a PCIe bus (PCI Express bus), the information processing apparatus comprising:\n a local host; and an advanced switching unit, wherein: the advanced switching unit includes\n non-transparent ports as data input and output ports, and \n a control register group for communication of the system host; \n the PCIe bus of the system host is connected to a plurality of PCIe devices via the information processing apparatus; a bus number of the PCIe bus on the system host side and a bus number of a PCIe bus on the local host side are assigned independently by the non-transparent ports, and an address space of the PCIe bus on the system host side and an address space of a PCIe bus on the local host side are configured independently by the non-transparent ports; the control register group (i) is directly accessed from the local host and (ii) is mapped onto a memory space on the system host side when the control register group is accessed from the system host; the local host\n interprets a command which is requested, by the system host, to the control register group mapped onto the memory space on the system host side and issues the command to the PCIe devices, \n receives an interrupt of command complete from each of the PCIe devices, and \n notifies the system host of the command completion via the control register group; \n data transfer between the system host and each of the PCIe devices is performed via the advanced switching unit; and the advanced switching unit is configured to reconfigure the plurality of PCIe devices as one virtual PCIe device, the advanced switching unit:\n converts an address and a Requester ID on the local host side into an address and a Requester ID on the system host side and transfer PCIe packets between each of the PCIe devices and the system host; and \n maps a portion of the memory space on the local host side onto the memory space on the system host side, the portion which is controlled by each of the PCIe devices.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33333
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16083333', '13669727', '11009391', '15442946', '15209111']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6568741029562418
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5317776289868866
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6443644555593063
- Mean Citation Score: 217.673394
- Max Citation Score: 376.66315
- Similarity Product: 334.08403613033886

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