PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16174411
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["315", "077000"]

Abstract:
A method of operating a plurality of driving units for powering electronic units comprises interchanging a data frame including a bit sequence, between a master control unit and at least one of a plurality of driving units at slave nodes. A step of applying an ID field comprises indicating the driving unit address using a first bit sub-string comprising N bits, allowing the master control unit to identify whether data should be received or transmitted, or allowing each addressed driving unit to decode which action is required by the master control unit, using an R/T command bit, performing a length decoding step, for including information in the ID field regarding the type of instructions included in the data frame, using an F function bit, and assigning data bits to different electronic units or indicating in the length of the bit string in the data field, using a second bit sub-string.

Claim (Index 15):
A bus protocol for interchanging a data frame including a bit sequence, between a master control unit and at least one of a plurality of driving units at slave nodes, the sequence being divided in fields of consecutive bit strings, the sequence comprising\n an ID field for addressing at least one driving unit, for interchanging data between the master control unit and the at least one addressed driving unit, a data field comprising information and/or instructions regarding the status of the electronic units wherein the ID field further comprises: the driving unit address using a first bit sub-string comprising N bits, where 2\u0302N is equal or higher than the number of driving units in the plurality of driving units, for applying the data field on the addressed driving unit or ignoring the data field if the driving unit is not addressed a receive/transmit command bit for allowing the master control unit to identify whether data should be received or transmitted, or for allowing each addressed driving unit to decode which action is required by the master control unit depending on the value of the receive/transmit command bit, a further function bit in the ID field for including information regarding the type of instructions included in the data frame, a second bit sub-string for assigning data bits to different electronic units or indicating in the length of the bit string in the data field depending on the value assigned in the further function bit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0641
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11519014', '13105762', '13495554', '15133864', '12336726']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6942874941614718
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4772063440903154
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6725793791543562
- Mean Citation Score: 163.67146
- Max Citation Score: 170.25339
- Similarity Product: 124.15232469221591

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

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