PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16164478
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["381", "058000"]

Abstract:
This applications relates to methods and apparatus for monitoring a socket ( 101 ), to detect a connection status of a mating plug ( 102 ), e.g. for monitoring an audio jack socket for connection of an audio jack plug. A monitor ( 115, 305 ) is configured to monitor a voltage (V M ) at a monitoring node ( 114 ), which is coupled to a jack detect contact ( 112 ) of the socket and a voltage pull-up element ( 113 ). The voltage (V M ) at the monitoring node ( 114 ) is monitored against a threshold (Vthv) and a threshold module ( 302 ) is configured to vary the threshold depending on an indication of signal activity (S ACT ) of a signal path for a first socket contact ( 103 ) which will be electrically connected to the jack detect contact when a plug when inserted in the socket.

Claim (Index 17):
A socket monitoring circuit as claimed in  claim 1  further comprising a controller responsive to said monitor and configured to determine a connection status of a plug based on the output of the monitor wherein the controller is configured to determine disconnection of a plug from the socket in the event the output of the monitor changes state to indicate that the voltage at the monitoring node has increased from below the variable threshold to above the variable threshold and wherein, in the event that the controller determines disconnection of a plug from the socket, the controller is configured to generate at least one of:\n a control signal to disable a microphone bias from being applied to a socket contact of the socket; and \n a control signal to enable a clamp switch to clamp a path for a microphone bias to ground.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33333
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14963891', '15108442', '15459022', '15918829', '15591808']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6771799601827273
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4822992971561568
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6576918938800703
- Mean Citation Score: 178.464472
- Max Citation Score: 189.29593
- Similarity Product: 138.26690845718858

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

Dataset: test