PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16043259
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["365", "189050"]

Abstract:
Methods of operating a memory include determining a voltage level of a plurality of voltage levels at which a memory cell is deemed to first activate in response to applying the to a control gate of that memory cell for each memory cell of a plurality of memory cells, determining a plurality of voltage level distributions from numbers of memory cells of a first subset of memory cells deemed to first activate at each voltage level of the plurality of voltage levels, determining a transition between a pair of voltage level distributions for each adjacent pair of voltage level distributions, and assigning a respective data state to each memory cell of a second subset of memory cells responsive to the determined voltage level at which that memory cell is deemed to first activate and respective voltage levels of the transitions for each adjacent pair of voltage level distributions.

Claim (Index 8):
A method of operating a memory, comprising:\n producing a count having a plurality of count values; for each count value of the plurality of count values, generating a respective voltage level of a plurality of voltage levels and applying that voltage level to control gates of a plurality of memory cells; for each count value of the plurality of count values, determining a number of memory cells of a first subset of memory cells of the plurality of memory cells deemed to first activate while the count has that count value; determining a plurality of distributions of the numbers of memory cells of the first subset of memory cells of the plurality of memory cells deemed to first activate for each count value of the plurality of count values, each distribution of the plurality of distributions corresponding to a respective data state of a plurality of data states; for each adjacent pair of distributions of the plurality of distributions, determining a respective count value corresponding to a transition between that pair of distributions; for each memory cell of a second subset of memory cells of the plurality of memory cells, mutually exclusive to the first subset of memory cells, assigning a respective data state of the plurality of data states to that memory cell responsive to a count value when that memory cell was deemed to first activate and the respective count values of the transitions for each adjacent pair of distributions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 36.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.16667
- Patent Class: 365.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15692154', '15856132', '15911490', '15866982', '12136470']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7683106774011785
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.516532046123039
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7431328142733646
- Mean Citation Score: 250.252614
- Max Citation Score: 331.6736
- Similarity Product: 291.6933403686524

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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