PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15954149
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["710", "308000"]

Abstract:
Implementations of encoding techniques are disclosed. The encoding technique, such as a Data bus inversion (DBI) technique, is implementable in a vertically-stacked memory module, but is not limited thereto. The module can be a plurality of memory integrated circuits which are vertically stacked, and which communicate via a bus formed in one embodiment of channels comprising Through-Wafer Interconnects (TWIs), but again is not limited thereto. One such module includes spare channels that are normally used to reroute a data signal on the bus away from faulty data channels. In one disclosed technique, the status of a spare channel or channels is queried, and if one or more are unused, they can be used to carry a DBI bit, thus allowing at least a portion of the bus to be assessed in accordance with a DBI algorithm. Depending on the location and number of spare channels needed for rerouting, DBI can be apportioned across the bus in various manners. Implementations can also be used with other encoding techniques not comprising DBI.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus comprising:\n a switching network coupled to a plurality of I/O ports and coupleable to a plurality of channels external to the device, the plurality of channels including a plurality of data channels and at least one spare channel; and rerouting circuitry to control the switching network and to transport at least one signal type selectable from either a data signal rerouted from a faulty one of the plurality of channels exterior to the device and an encoding indicator signal to the at least one spare channel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98958
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12366379', '14804027', '12136868', '12721042', '14833876']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.64033532794484
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5635134638215568
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6326531415325117
- Mean Citation Score: 284.91748600000005
- Max Citation Score: 436.9956
- Similarity Product: 395.3126378994942

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

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