PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15925399
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["365", "189020"]

Abstract:
A semiconductor device may include a plurality of memory banks and an output buffer that may couple to the plurality of memory banks. The output buffer may produce a data voltage signal representative of data to be read from at least one of the plurality of memory banks to a controller. The semiconductor device may also include a plurality of switches that may couple a voltage source to the output buffer, a first pull-down switch that may drive the output buffer to a low voltage reference level to correct its drive strength. The device also includes a second pull-down switch that may couple the output buffer to the low voltage reference level. The plurality of switches, the first pull-down switch, and the second pull-down switch may each provide the data voltage signal to the output buffer.

Claim (Index 15):
A method, comprising:\n receiving, via a circuit, a first indication that a logical zero is to be provided to an output buffer of a memory device via a data voltage signal representative of data to be written into or read from a plurality of memory banks coupled to the output buffer; receiving, via the circuit, a second indication of a time in which a first pull-down switch configured to directly couple the output buffer to ground is to be closed based on the first indication; and generating, via the circuit, a pulse signal configured to cause a second pull-down switch to close synchronously with the first pull-down switch based on the second indication, wherein the second pull-down switch is configured to couple the output buffer to the ground via a resistor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.88
- Patent Class: 365.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15924857', '15924757', '14723614', '15426603', '14460764']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7791761455493482
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4759206597347724
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7488505969678906
- Mean Citation Score: 183.19866
- Max Citation Score: 256.66147
- Similarity Product: 237.0113708196056

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

Dataset: test