PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16029058
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["708", "211000"]

Abstract:
A trailing/leading zero counter is described which comprises a plurality of hardware logic blocks, each of which calculates one bit of the output value (i.e. the number of trailing/leading zeros depending on whether it is a trailing/leading zero counter). Each hardware logic block comprises two blocks of section hardware logic which each receive a section of an input string and generate one or two outputs from this section of bits. Combining logic then combines the outputs of the section hardware logic to generate the bit of the output value. For hardware logic blocks which calculate bits other than the least significant bit of the output, the hardware logic blocks also comprise one or more OR reduction stages which reduces the length of the input string by pairwise combining of bits using OR gates before the resultant string is divided into two sections and input to the section hardware logic.

Claim (Index 1):
A zero counter comprising a plurality of hardware logic blocks each arranged to calculate one bit of an output value, the output value corresponding to a number of trailing or leading zeros in an input string, wherein at least one hardware logic block in the plurality of hardware logic blocks is arranged to calculate a bit of index i of the output value and comprises:\n i OR reduction stages arranged in series, a first OR reduction stage arranged to receive the input string and comprising one or more OR gates arranged to combine adjacent bits in the input string to generate an output string and any subsequent OR reduction stages arranged to receive the output string from a preceding OR reduction stage and comprising one or more OR gates arranged to combine adjacent bits in the received string to generate a further output string; and combining logic arranged to combine outputs derived from a last OR reduction in the series and generate a bit of index i of the output value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10667
- Patent Class: 708.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15810081', '15218306', '15426907', '14598459', '15636100']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5280178417977658
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5862260173770695
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5338386593556962
- Mean Citation Score: 424.202142
- Max Citation Score: 479.53256
- Similarity Product: 463.6404204608346

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

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