PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16433027
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["708", "003000"]

Abstract:
The systems, devices, articles, and methods generally relate to sampling from an available probability distribution. The samples maybe used to create a desirable probability distribution, for instance for use in computing values used in computational techniques including: Importance Sampling and Markov chain Monte Carlo systems. An analog processor may operate as a sample generator, for example by: programming the analog processor with a configuration of the number of programmable parameters for the analog processor, which corresponds to a probability distribution over qubits of the analog processor, evolving the analog processor with a fast ramp operation, and reading out states for the qubits. The state for the qubits may be post processes and/or used to calculate importance weights.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of operation of a hybrid computing system to generate approximate equilibrium statistics, the hybrid computing system comprising an analog processor and a digital processor, the method comprising:\n initializing a counter i; determining an intermediate value s i * of an annealing parameter, the annealing parameter normalized between a value of zero and a value of one; determining a ramp time t ramp  wherein the ramp time t ramp  is smaller than a relaxation time of the analog processor and greater than a time needed for non-adiabatic transition to higher energy states; initializing, the analog processor to a state i; until an exit condition is met, iteratively:\n evolving the analog processor from a value of one for the annealing parameter until the annealing parameter is equal to the intermediate value s i *, wherein evolving the analog processor from a value of one for the annealing parameter until the annealing parameter is equal to the intermediate value s i * occurs in the ramp time t ramp ; \n holding the annealing parameter of the analog processor to the intermediate value s i * for a defined dwell time; \n evolving the analog processor from the intermediate value s i * of the annealing parameter until the annealing parameter is equal to one, wherein evolving the analog processor from the intermediate value s i * of the annealing parameter until the annealing parameter is equal to one occurs in the ramp time t ramp  and after the ramp time t ramp  the analog processor is in a state i+1; and \n reading out the state i+1 of the analog processor; \n if the exit condition is not met, determining a new intermediate value s i +1*>s i * of the annealing parameter; and incrementing the counter i.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72368
- Patent Class: 708.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15870411', '16308314', '14676605', '14844876', '14829342']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.42079789813585
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5920018256887307
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4379182908911381
- Mean Citation Score: 334.045408
- Max Citation Score: 486.25204
- Similarity Product: 436.74052793291565

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

Dataset: test