PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15941831
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["375", "233000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments are disclosed for equalizing a pulse amplitude modulation signal for a receiver in a communication system. An example method includes receiving an electronic signal. The electronic signal encodes a plurality of symbols in a number of amplitude levels in a plurality of pulses in the electronic signal. The example method further includes estimating multiple symbol values using all possible values of an immediately preceding symbol for each symbol in the electronic signal. Each estimated symbol value is determined using one of the possible values of the immediately preceding symbol. The example method further includes receiving an actual value of the immediately preceding symbol and selecting an actual estimated symbol value from the multiple symbol values based on the actual value of the immediately preceding symbol. The actual estimated symbol value may be used as the actual value for selecting an estimated symbol value of an immediately subsequent symbol.

Claim (Index 19):
The apparatus of  claim 11 , further comprising a feed-forward equalizer, and wherein the electronic signal is generated by the feed-forward equalizer based on another electronic signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64407
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14973163', '15827960', '15942043', '12969402', '11431451']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4901425225973686
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4928597551538519
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4904142458530169
- Mean Citation Score: 223.98449
- Max Citation Score: 239.31789
- Similarity Product: 177.4254773453468

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

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