PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16411989
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["375", "224000"]

Abstract:
Advanced detectors for vector signaling codes are disclosed which utilize multi-input comparators, generalized on-level slicing, reference generation based on maximum swing, and reference generation based on recent values. Vector signaling codes communicate information as groups of symbols which, when transmitted over multiple communications channels, may be received as mixed sets of symbols from different transmission groups due to propagation time variations between channels. Systems and methods are disclosed which compensate receivers and transmitters for these effects and/or utilize codes having increased immunity to such variations, and circuits are described that efficiently implement their component functions.

Claim (Index 14):
An apparatus comprising:\n a plurality of codeword detection circuits configured to decode symbols of a codeword of at least a ternary vector signaling code by generating a set of digital output signals, each codeword detection circuit comprising:\n a set of n weighted inputs weighted by a set of input weighting factors, wherein n is an integer greater than 3; \n two summing nodes, each summing node of the two summing nodes configured to receive a corresponding subset of at least two weighted inputs of the n weighted inputs as summing-node inputs, each summing node configured to generate a respective summing-node value of a pair of summing-node values, each respective summing-node value representing an analog sum of the corresponding subset of the at least two inputs; and, \n a differential comparator means configured to produce a respective digital output of the set of digital outputs, the digital output indicating which summing-node value of the pair is larger.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.42466
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13842740', '16057559', '15816941', '15084280', '15285316']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4920795691913383
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5407589743780611
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4969475097100106
- Mean Citation Score: 316.29288
- Max Citation Score: 378.61517
- Similarity Product: 333.690193532387

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

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