PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15935051
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["370", "257000"]

Abstract:
The present application relates to a system and a method for determining relative positions slave units along a stub bus with at least a power line and a ground line. Each slave unit is operable in different power modes, which are differentiated by effective resistances between the power and ground lines. A reference voltage potential drop is determined for each slave unit while the slave units are operating in a first power mode. A positioning voltage potential drop is determined for one or more slave units while a selected slave unit is operating in a second power mode. Relative positions of the slave units are determined based on the relative voltage potential drops obtained from the reference and positioning voltage potential drops.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for determining relative positions of a plurality of slave units connected to a stub bus with a master unit, wherein the stub bus comprises at least a power line and a ground line, wherein each slave unit is operable in different power modes, which are differentiated by effective resistances between the power line and the ground line,\n the method comprising: determining for each slave unit a reference voltage potential drop across the power line and the ground line while the slave units are operating in a first power mode; determining a positioning voltage potential drop across the power line and the ground line with regard to the one or more slave units while a selected slave unit of the plurality of slave units is operating in a second power mode; and determining relative positions of the plurality of slave units based on relative voltage potential drops obtained from the positioning voltage potential drops and the reference voltage potential drops.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93939
- Patent Class: 370.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15693895', '15652807', '13646397', '11519014', '13387366']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4546248830919348
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.489960489955481
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4581584437782894
- Mean Citation Score: 159.838212
- Max Citation Score: 184.39693
- Similarity Product: 127.53317482616303

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

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