PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16185022
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["710", "110000"]

Abstract:
An interface control device for controlling communication among a number of USB devices includes a number of USB interfaces, a detection unit, and a USB controller. Each USB interface is configured to couple to one corresponding USB device. The detection unit is electrically coupled to the number of USB interfaces and configured to detect a master-slave relationship of the USB devices. The USB controller is configured to obtain from the detection unit the master-slave relationship of the USB devices and define a type of the USB interfaces coupled to the corresponding USB devices according to the master-slave relationship of the USB devices.

Claim (Index 9):
A communication system comprising:\n a plurality of USB devices; and an interface control device configured to control communication among the plurality of USB devices, the interface control device comprising:\n a plurality of USB interfaces, each USB interface configured to couple to one corresponding USB device; \n a detection unit electrically coupled to the plurality of USB interfaces and configured to detect a master-slave relationship of the USB devices; and \n a USB controller configured to obtain from the detection unit the master-slave relationship of the USB devices and define a type of the USB interfaces coupled to the corresponding USB devices according to the master-slave relationship of the USB devices.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.7
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14556422', '10460826', '12917454', '10460822', '11828724']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6060321111142338
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4568733604191401
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5911162360447244
- Mean Citation Score: 127.1179382
- Max Citation Score: 134.60397
- Similarity Product: 105.88006763536156

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

Dataset: test