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 1):
A data communication circuit comprising:\n a differential bus configured and arranged to convey data differentially; a plurality of data processing nodes, each including logic circuitry and each communicatively coupled to the differential bus; a data logic circuit configured and arranged to facilitate communications for each of the plurality of data processing nodes over the differential bus by identifying each of the data processing nodes, and by using the identification to communicate with one of the plurality of data processing nodes; and a plurality of switchable isolation circuits including a transformer and switching circuitry, each switchable isolation circuit being configured and arranged with the data logic circuit to mitigate signal propagation over the differential bus between adjacent data processing nodes via the transformer, and the switching circuitry configured to cause a change of impedance at the transformer to affect passage of signals to another of the plurality of data processing 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): 0.4597201523358034
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4668245261738815
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4604305897196111
- Mean Citation Score: 149.033142
- Max Citation Score: 155.63069
- Similarity Product: 116.86642928342104

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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