PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16164478
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["381", "058000"]

Abstract:
This applications relates to methods and apparatus for monitoring a socket ( 101 ), to detect a connection status of a mating plug ( 102 ), e.g. for monitoring an audio jack socket for connection of an audio jack plug. A monitor ( 115, 305 ) is configured to monitor a voltage (V M ) at a monitoring node ( 114 ), which is coupled to a jack detect contact ( 112 ) of the socket and a voltage pull-up element ( 113 ). The voltage (V M ) at the monitoring node ( 114 ) is monitored against a threshold (Vthv) and a threshold module ( 302 ) is configured to vary the threshold depending on an indication of signal activity (S ACT ) of a signal path for a first socket contact ( 103 ) which will be electrically connected to the jack detect contact when a plug when inserted in the socket.

Claim (Index 16):
A socket monitoring circuit as claimed in  claim 1  wherein said pull-up element comprises a current source.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33333
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14963891', '15108442', '15459022', '15918829', '15591808']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6997930238751793
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4977241246720043
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6795861339548618
- Mean Citation Score: 178.464472
- Max Citation Score: 189.29593
- Similarity Product: 120.742372556324

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