PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15936394
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["710", "313000"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides a method for managing the wiring and growth of a direct interconnect network implemented on a torus or higher radix interconnect structure based on an architecture that replaces the Network Interface Card (NIC) with PCIe switching cards housed in the server. Also provided is a passive patch panel for use in the implementation of the interconnect, comprising: a passive backplane that houses node to node connectivity for the interconnect; and at least one connector board plugged into the passive backplane comprising multiple connectors. The multiple connectors are capable of receiving an interconnecting plug to maintain the continuity of the torus or higher radix topology when not fully enabled. The PCIe card for use in the implementation of the interconnect comprises: at least 4 electrical or optical ports for the interconnect; a local switch; a processor with RAM and ROM memory; and a PCI interface.

Claim (Index 2):
The method of  claim 1  comprising additional steps of:\n removing an interconnect plug from a connector in the at least one secondary field of connectors and replacing said plug with a connection to another passive patch panel to expand the interconnect network in one or more additional dimensions; \n discovering connectivity of nodes in the interconnect network; and \n discovering topology of the interconnect network.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71277
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14915336', '15114722', '15888516', '14869177', '13766115']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6309781229616757
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5721856411052967
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6250988747760378
- Mean Citation Score: 267.122214
- Max Citation Score: 517.26465
- Similarity Product: 347.7843926892578

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

Dataset: test