PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16376059
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["710", "313000"]

Abstract:
Asymmetric power states on a communication link are disclosed. In one aspect, the communication link is a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) express (PCIe) link. PCIe is a point-to-point communication link between two termini. Exemplary aspects of the present disclosure allow the two termini to be in different power states. By allowing the two termini to be in the different power states, an individual terminus may be put into a low-power state even though the other terminus is maintained at a higher-power state. The different power states are enabled by providing switches between a reference clock and respective termini such that the reference clock may selectively be provided to only one terminus of the communication link, allowing that terminus to remain in the higher-power state while the other terminus enters a low-power state that does not require the reference clock.

Claim (Index 7):
A Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) express (PCIe) root complex, comprising:\n a physical layer (PHY) configured to be coupled to a PCIe link; and a control system operatively coupled to the PHY and configured to:\n relative to an associated endpoint, asymmetrically enter a low-power state by:\n voting to enter the low-power state; \n determining that the associated endpoint is not ready to enter the low-power state; and \n entering the low-power state while continuing to provide a reference clock signal to the associated endpoint; and \n \n relative to the associated endpoint, asymmetrically avoid entrance into the low-power state while instructing the associated endpoint to enter the low-power state by:\n receiving a vote from the associated endpoint to enter the low-power state; and \n instructing the associated endpoint to enter the low-power state while continuing to provide the reference clock signal to a PCIe root complex.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05405
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15449209', '15647088', '15647103', '14135447', '15269243']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6806366671917453
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5527836536410408
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6678513658366749
- Mean Citation Score: 260.1384
- Max Citation Score: 461.11707
- Similarity Product: 292.63810525209544

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

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