PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15875118
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["370", "329000"]

Abstract:
A method for avoiding collision over a communication network, wherein devices are connected to the same medium. Each device has an access control module, a transceiver and a data exchange module. The access control module is configured to transmit data to the data exchange module when it receives information that no data is present on the medium. The transceiver is configured to transmit data on the medium each time it receives data from the data exchange module. The data exchange modules of all the devices are synchronized and then offered, in sequence, the opportunity to transmit data on the medium. The opportunity to transmit is offered dynamically after a previous transmission end or, if no transmission occurred, after a predetermined time range has expired. The data exchange module transmits data to the transceiver of the same device only when it is offered the opportunity to transmit.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for avoiding collision over a communication network, wherein a plurality of devices is connected to one same medium for sending and receiving data, each device of said plurality being provided with\n an access control module for controlling access of the device to the medium, a transceiver module for receiving and/or transmitting data over the medium, and a data exchange module for exchanging data between the access control module and the transceiver module, wherein the access control module is configured to transmit data to the data exchange module when it receives an information that no data is present on the medium, and wherein the transceiver module is configured to transmit data on the medium each time it receives data from the data exchange module, the method comprising: synchronizing the data exchange modules of all the devices, once the data exchange modules are synchronized, cyclically offering in sequence to each data exchange module an opportunity to transmit data on the medium, said opportunity to transmit being offered dynamically after a previous transmission ends or, if no transmission occurs, after a predetermined time range has expired, wherein each data exchange module transmits data to a respective transceiver module only when said data exchange module is offered said opportunity to transmit, while if a data exchange module receives a request for data transmission from the respective access control module when it has not been offered the opportunity to transmit, then the data exchange module delays data transmission to the transceiver module until the next opportunity to transmit is offered to the same data exchange module.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37313
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11311890', '12494776', '11793840', '11321914', '12839967']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5168599160884897
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4823312364398387
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5134070481236246
- Mean Citation Score: 153.025218
- Max Citation Score: 155.12581
- Similarity Product: 100.35284640630069

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

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