PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15953017
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["375", "371000"]

Abstract:
A system and method for synchronizing two devices in communication with each other. When communication between the two devices is to be established, a synchronization process may be invoked. In an embodiment, a first device may initiate sending synchronization signals having rising edge and falling edge pairs. The second device may include a controller configured to receive the synchronization signals. However, noise may inhibit the ability of the controller to correctly receive and/or interpret the synchronization signals. Noise may cause detection components to falsely detect noise as a synchronization signal or may cause detection components to miss detection of an actual synchronization signal. A window generator may be used to generate comparison windows for the controller to detect synchronization signals. Further, the detection window duration and start times may be adjusted based on previously detected (or undetected) synchronization signals in order to compensate for noise overshadowing synchronization signals.

Claim (Index 1):
A synchronization detector, comprising:\n a receiver configured to receive a synchronization signal having a period and edges; and a window generator configured to generate an activating signal for the receiver, the activating signal enabling the receiver to attempt detection during each of a plurality of time windows, the receiver being disabled outside each of the plurality of time windows, the plurality of time windows including:\n a first time window for detecting a first subsequent synchronization signal edge in response to a first synchronization signal edge; \n a second time window for detecting a second subsequent synchronization signal edge following the first subsequent synchronization signal edge in response to a failure to detect the first subsequent synchronization signal edge within the first time window, wherein the second time window has a duration that is greater than that of the first time window and that is related to the period of the synchronization signal; and \n a third time window for detecting a third subsequent synchronization signal edge following the second subsequent synchronization edge signal in response to a failure to detect the second subsequent synchronization signal edge within the second time window, wherein the third time window has a duration that is greater than that of the second time window and that is related to the period of the synchronization signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88372
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14199210', '14199510', '13975926', '15186939', '14801050']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4428938690822718
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4799173060416843
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4465962127782131
- Mean Citation Score: 152.602452
- Max Citation Score: 242.48314
- Similarity Product: 219.79679795725585

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

Dataset: test