PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16019866
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["716", "133000"]

Abstract:
When a transition control unit stochastically determines whether to accept one of a plurality of state transitions, using a temperature, an energy change, and a random number, depending on a relative relationship between the energy change and thermal excitation energy, the transition control unit adds an offset to the energy change, controls the offset so as to be larger at a local minimum, at which the energy is locally minimized, than at a solution at which the energy is not minimized, and resets the offset to zero when the energy change value is larger than a threshold.

Claim (Index 3):
The optimization apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the transition control unit includes:\n a selector configured to select based on the random number one of the energy changes having been calculated for the plurality of state transitions; a storing unit configured to output a value of an inverse function to a function that expresses an acceptance probability of each of the plurality of state transitions according to the random number, the function being expressed by using Metropolis method or Gibbs method; a multiplier configured to output a second threshold of the thermal excitation energy that is a product of the value of the inverse function and the temperature; a comparator configured to output a first determination result indicating whether to accept a state transition corresponding to the one of the energy changes selected by the selector, the first determination result being expressed by a value corresponding to a comparison result obtained by comparing a sum of the offset and the one of the energy changes with the second threshold of the thermal excitation energy; a determination circuit configured to output a second determination result indicating whether the one of the energy changes or an absolute value of the one of the energy changes is larger than the first threshold; and an offset control circuit configured to reset the offset to zero when the second determination result indicates that the one of the energy changes or the absolute value of the one of the energy changes is larger than the first threshold, and configured to increase the offset at first intervals, when the second determination result indicates that the one of the energy change or the absolute value of the one of the energy changes is equal to or smaller than the first threshold, such that the offset is monotonously increased during a stay time at a current state expressed with the plurality of state variables.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94545
- Patent Class: 716.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15718949', '15755257', '14737868', '15264029', '10735604']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2966491024874583
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5184001352431921
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3188242057630316
- Mean Citation Score: 183.07028
- Max Citation Score: 353.2522
- Similarity Product: 312.04523078070883

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

Dataset: test