PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15973298
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["710", "106000"]

Abstract:
A multi-protocol retimer apparatus and method for using the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus for performing retiming between first and second devices according to a plurality of protocols comprises: a receiver operable to receive data; a transmitter to transmit data; a first data path coupled to the receiver and the transmitter and operable to transfer data received from the receiver to the transmitter during protocol specific training, where the first data path comprises control circuitry to control protocol specific training of one or both of the transmitter and receiver in response to an indication of one protocol of the plurality of protocols; and a second data path coupled to the receiver and the transmitter, the second data path having a lower latency than the first data path and for use in transferring data received from the receiver to the transmitter after protocol specific training.

Claim (Index 20):
The method defined in  claim 19  wherein determining the PHY type is based on a strap option.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.47619
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15193941', '15749352', '14659582', '14802957', '15797417']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.633331309145398
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.503714941882651
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6203696724191234
- Mean Citation Score: 172.23325599999995
- Max Citation Score: 294.80872
- Similarity Product: 280.261906012373

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

Dataset: test