PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16137428
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["365", "230080"]

Abstract:
Memory devices may provide a communication interface that is configured to receive control signals, and/or address signals from user circuitry, such as a processor. The memory device may receive and process signals employing different signal paths that may have different latencies, leading to clock skews. Embodiments discussed herein the application are related to interface circuitry that may decrease certain response times of the memory device by adding delays that minimize the clock skews. For example, a delay in a control path, such as a chip select path, may allow reduction in a delay of an address path, and leading to a decrease of the access time of the memory device. Embodiments also disclose how training modes may be employed to further adjust the delays in the control and/or address paths to decrease access times during regular operation.

Claim (Index 17):
A method to operate a memory device, the method comprising:\n in a training mode:\n receiving a chip select (CS) signal; \n delaying the CS signal using delay circuitry; and \n providing a training signal based on the delayed CS signal; and \n in a non-training mode:\n receiving the CS signal; \n latching a command/address (CA) signal based on the received CS signal; \n delaying the CS signal using the delay circuitry; and \n latching the delayed received CS signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 36.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91026
- Patent Class: 365.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15691394', '15826404', '15850744', '15730233', '15880994']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8126207890314353
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5088001313147098
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7822387232597627
- Mean Citation Score: 258.00021000000004
- Max Citation Score: 331.78552
- Similarity Product: 319.8447371947624

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