PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16255536
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["375", "376000"]

Abstract:
A sub-sampling phase-locked loop is described, which comprises a digital-to-time converter, a sampler module, an interpolator, and a voltage controlled oscillator. The digital-to-time converter is configured to provide a first delay signal SDLY 1  at a first point t 1  in time and a second delay signal SDLY 2  at a second point in time t 2 . The sampler module is configured to provide a first sample S 1  of the oscillator output signal SOUT at the first point in time t 1  and a second sample S 2  of the oscillator output signal SOUT at the second point in time t 2 . The interpolator is configured to provide a sampler signal SSAMPL by interpolating the first sample S 1  and the second sample S 2 . The voltage controlled oscillator is configured to control the oscillator output signal SOUT based on the sampler signal SSAMPL.

Claim (Index 19):
A method, implemented by a sub-sampling phase-locked loop, the method comprising:\n providing, by a digital-to-time converter (DTC) of the sub-sampling phase-locked loop, a first delay signal and a second delay signal, to a sampler module of the sub-sampling phase-locked loop, providing, by the sampler module of the sub-sampling phase-locked loop, a first sample of an oscillator output signal based on the first delay signal and a second sample of the oscillator output signal based on the second delay signal; providing, by an interpolator of the sub-sampling phase-locked loop, a sampler signal by interpolating the first sample and the second sample; and controlling and providing, by an oscillator of the sub-sampling phase-locked loop, the oscillator output signal based on the sampler signal to the sampler module of the sub-sampling phase-locked loop.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.14286
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15660424', '15224296', '15224280', '15224199', '16046513']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5043887347750402
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6096722099279125
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5149170822903274
- Mean Citation Score: 319.355008
- Max Citation Score: 553.2161
- Similarity Product: 504.3334903338432

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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