PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16256162
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["710", "063000"]

Abstract:
This application relates to methods and apparatus for transfer of data between a host device ( 400 ) and a peripheral device ( 300 ) via a USB Type-C connector ( 100; 304 ) of the host device. A data controller is described that has a path controller ( 309, 310; 706 ) for establishing signal paths between circuitry of the host device and contacts ( 101 ) of said USB Type-C connector. The path controller is operable in at least first and second modes. In the first mode the path controller establishes separate signal paths to each of at least first, second, third and fourth contacts (A 6 , A 7 , B 6 , B 7 ) of the USB Type-C connector and a plurality of the established signal paths are for transfer of analogue audio data. In the second mode the path controller establishes a pair of signal paths to only a subset of said first to fourth contacts to provide a differential digital data path.

Claim (Index 4):
A data controller as claimed in  claim 1  wherein, when entering the first mode, the data controller is configured to determine a connection configuration for the peripheral device, wherein the connection configuration indicates whether each of the first to fourth contacts of the USB Type-C connector is connected to a microphone or a loudspeaker of the peripheral device, and wherein the path controller establishes the signal paths in the first mode based on the determined connection configuration.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 62.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36842
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15051995', '16233676', '15847183', '15659276', '15243154']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7114950151979715
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5166798174725761
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.692013495425432
- Mean Citation Score: 258.071118
- Max Citation Score: 343.11603
- Similarity Product: 342.328736405468

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