PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16035430
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["365", "185190"]

Abstract:
A semiconductor memory device in accordance with an embodiment may include a memory cell array, a peripheral circuit, and a control circuit. The memory cell array may include a plurality of memory cells programmed to any one of first to N-th program states divided based on threshold voltages. The peripheral circuit may perform a program operation on the memory cells. The control circuit may control the peripheral circuit so that, during the program operation, a primary program operation is performed, and after the primary program operation, a secondary program operation is performed. The primary program operation may include a plurality of verify steps performed for the first to N-1-th program states and a single primary verify step performed for the N-th program state. The secondary program operation may include a secondary verify step performed for the N-th program state.

Claim (Index 10):
The method according to  claim 7 , wherein performing the secondary program operation comprises:\n applying a program voltage to a selected word line coupled to memory cells selected from among the plurality of memory cells; verifying whether the selected memory cells have been properly programmed by using a verification voltage of the additional verify step; and repeating the applying of the program voltage and the verifying of the selected memory cells until the memory cells to be programmed to the second program states group have passed program verifications.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.74545
- Patent Class: 365.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15606674', '14980083', '15077681', '15641485', '14868586']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8195467051615807
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5357536792544233
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.791167402570865
- Mean Citation Score: 281.254608
- Max Citation Score: 386.07587
- Similarity Product: 347.4426155099112

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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