PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15936394
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["710", "313000"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides a method for managing the wiring and growth of a direct interconnect network implemented on a torus or higher radix interconnect structure based on an architecture that replaces the Network Interface Card (NIC) with PCIe switching cards housed in the server. Also provided is a passive patch panel for use in the implementation of the interconnect, comprising: a passive backplane that houses node to node connectivity for the interconnect; and at least one connector board plugged into the passive backplane comprising multiple connectors. The multiple connectors are capable of receiving an interconnecting plug to maintain the continuity of the torus or higher radix topology when not fully enabled. The PCIe card for use in the implementation of the interconnect comprises: at least 4 electrical or optical ports for the interconnect; a local switch; a processor with RAM and ROM memory; and a PCI interface.

Claim (Index 6):
A Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) card for use in optical wavelength multiplexing comprising:\n a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) connection; a processor with Random Access Memory (RAM) and Read Only Memory (ROM) memory; a photonic switch; at least one PHY interface device; a first passive optical mux-demux comprising fibers and combining multiple optical wavelengths on the fibers, said mux-demux being linked to optical receivers; and a second passive optical mux-demux comprising fibers, said second passive optical mux-demux linked to optical transmitters on different wavelengths and combining multiple optical wavelengths on the fibers, said fibers interconnecting a plurality of mux-demux to implement an optical direct interconnect torus network, and wherein said PCIe card is capable of supporting port to Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) traffic, hair pinning traffic, and transit with add/drop traffic.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71277
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14915336', '15114722', '15888516', '14869177', '13766115']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6298542518758071
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5750521541367042
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6243740421018968
- Mean Citation Score: 267.122214
- Max Citation Score: 517.26465
- Similarity Product: 361.2059071668684

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

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