PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15918094
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["375", "258000"]

Abstract:
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to facilitating communications to respective circuit nodes in a manner that may also be useful for mitigating undesirable signal attenuation. As may be implemented in accordance with one or more embodiments, switchable isolation circuits, presented by at least one transformer and switch, are utilized to isolate adjacent data processing nodes on a bus in which each data processing node includes logic circuitry and processes signal therein. For each of the switchable isolation circuits, switching circuitry operates to mitigate communication propagation over the differential bus between adjacent data processing nodes, by switching the switchable isolation circuit for providing isolation. This approach may be utilized, for example, to assign sequential identification to daisy-chained circuit nodes upon start-up or reset, for use in addressing each node directly for further communication therewith.

Claim (Index 18):
A method for communicating between circuit nodes communicatively coupled to a bus having at least two bus lines connected to each of a plurality of circuit nodes, the method comprising:\n in response to an initiation event, isolating the circuit node from an adjacent one of the circuit nodes using a switchable isolation circuit including, for each bus line, a switched isolation transformer having a first winding connected in series between the circuit node and an adjacent one of the plurality of circuit nodes and a second winding, by preventing current from circulating in the second winding and therein mitigating passage of signals on the bus line through the first winding; and identifying or assigning an address to the circuit node while utilizing the switchable isolation circuit to mitigate propagation of signals to the adjacent one of the circuit nodes,. wherein for each bus line, a switched isolation transformer having a first winding connected in series between the adjacent circuit node and a further adjacent one of the plurality of circuit nodes and a second winding, by preventing current from circulating in the second switched control winding and therein mitigating passage of signals on the bus line through the first winding, and identifying or assigning an address to the adjacent circuit node while utilizing the switchable isolation circuit to mitigate propagation of signals to the further adjacent one of the circuit nodes.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7093
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11509146', '13381033', '12897455', '10812314', '10834959']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4603358365497612
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4645066691404784
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4607529198088329
- Mean Citation Score: 149.033142
- Max Citation Score: 155.63069
- Similarity Product: 119.0234315586686

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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