PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15875519
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["327", "109000"]

Abstract:
A correction system is configured to correct for duty cycle distortion and/or cross-point distortion in a pair of sample signals. A slope adjustment circuit is configured to generate a plurality of pairs of intermediate signals according to a plurality of drive strengths. A measurement circuit is configured to measure for duty cycle distortion and/or cross-point distortion, and the slope adjustment circuit is configured to set the plurality of drive strengths based on the measurement. The setting of the drive strengths may reduce certain rising and falling slopes of certain transitions of the plurality of intermediate signals, which in turn may reduce duty cycle distortion and/or cross-point distortion in the sample signals.

Claim (Index 15):
A circuit comprising:\n a slope adjustment circuit comprising a plurality of portions configured to generate a plurality of pairs of intermediate signals, each portion of the plurality of portions comprising a pull-up portion or a push-down portion, wherein the plurality of portions comprises:\n a first set of portions configured to pull up and push down voltage levels of the plurality of pairs of intermediate signals with an initial drive strength amount; and \n a second set of portions configured to pull up and push down the voltage levels of the plurality of pairs of intermediate signals with associated reduced drive strength amounts relative to the initial drive strength amount, and \n a control circuit configured to:\n identify an initial polarity of a cross-point distortion in a pair of complementary sample signals; \n identify a configuration of the first set of portions and the second set of portions dependent on the initial polarity of the cross-point distortion; and \n output drive strength signals to set drive strengths of the portions of the first set to the initial drive strength amount, and to set drive strengths of the portions of the second set to the associated reduced drive strength amounts.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38776
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15639153', '13219982', '12553792', '11211824', '13966038']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.740111564071646
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5006423533366579
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7161646429981472
- Mean Citation Score: 174.10334
- Max Citation Score: 242.93312000000003
- Similarity Product: 157.1326416906357

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

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