PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16057719
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["714", "795000"]

Abstract:
A convolutional decoder includes a first storage, a second storage, a branch metric processor to determine branch metrics for transitions of states from a start step to a last step according to input bit streams, an ACS processor to select maximum likelihood path metrics to determine a survival path according to the branch metrics and to update states of the start step to the first storage and the second storage alternately based on the selection of the maximum likelihood path metrics, and a trace back logic to selectively trace back the survival path based on the states of the start step stored in a selected storage among the first storage and the second storage.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus comprising:\n a first storage comprising first storage areas; a second storage comprising second storage areas; a branch metric processor configured to determine branch metrics for transitions of states from a start step to a last step according to input bit streams; an Add-Compare-Select (ACS) processor configured to:\n select maximum likelihood path metrics to determine a survival path according to the branch metrics; and \n read and write states of the start step from and to the first storage and the second storage alternately based on the selection of the maximum likelihood path metrics, a state of a first step being transited to a state of a second step corresponding to an address of a storage area to access for the read and the state of the second step corresponding to an address of a storage area to access for the write; and \n a trace back logic to selectively trace back the survival path based on the states of the start step stored in a selected storage among the first storage and the second storage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38
- Patent Class: 714.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15340992', '12064175', '11529412', '15339264', '11196410']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2644334294586937
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5705710091920659
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2950471874320309
- Mean Citation Score: 276.36836
- Max Citation Score: 450.82025
- Similarity Product: 420.3297748904973

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

Dataset: test