PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16044886
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["710", "071000"]

Abstract:
A stacked semiconductor device includes a plurality of semiconductor dies stacked in a first direction, M data paths electrically connecting the plurality of semiconductor dies, one data path including one or more through-silicon vias, where M is a positive integer, a transmission circuit including M serialization units configured to serialize P transmission signals to M serial signals and output the M serial signals to the M data paths, respectively, where P is a positive integer greater than M and a reception circuit including M parallelization units configured to receive the M serial signals from the M data paths and parallelize the M serial signals to P reception signals corresponding to the P transmission signals. The number of the through-silicon vias is reduced by serializing the transmission signals, transferring the serialized signals through the smaller number of data paths between the stacked semiconductor dies and then parallelizing the transferred signals.

Claim (Index 19):
A method of transferring signals in a stacked semiconductor device, the method comprising:\n stacking a plurality of semiconductor dies in a first direction; electrically connecting the plurality of semiconductor dies through M data paths, at least one data path of the M data paths comprising a through-silicon via, wherein M is a positive integer; serializing P transmission signals to M serial signals in a first semiconductor die among the plurality of semiconductor dies to output the M serial signals to the M data paths, respectively, wherein P is a positive integer greater than M; and parallelizing the M serial signals received from the M data paths to P reception signals corresponding to the P transmission signals in a second semiconductor die among the plurality of semiconductor dies.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43077
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15479971', '15153383', '16038269', '14960909', '15617450']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6753903902697507
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4818754611404304
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6560388973568188
- Mean Citation Score: 206.772292
- Max Citation Score: 226.26772000000005
- Similarity Product: 174.36905765945676

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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