PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16164478
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["381", "058000"]

Abstract:
This applications relates to methods and apparatus for monitoring a socket ( 101 ), to detect a connection status of a mating plug ( 102 ), e.g. for monitoring an audio jack socket for connection of an audio jack plug. A monitor ( 115, 305 ) is configured to monitor a voltage (V M ) at a monitoring node ( 114 ), which is coupled to a jack detect contact ( 112 ) of the socket and a voltage pull-up element ( 113 ). The voltage (V M ) at the monitoring node ( 114 ) is monitored against a threshold (Vthv) and a threshold module ( 302 ) is configured to vary the threshold depending on an indication of signal activity (S ACT ) of a signal path for a first socket contact ( 103 ) which will be electrically connected to the jack detect contact when a plug when inserted in the socket.

Claim (Index 18):
An apparatus comprising:\n a socket monitoring circuit as claimed in  claim 1 ; a socket for receiving a mating plug of an accessory apparatus, the socket comprising said jacket detect contact and said first socket contact arranged so as to contact the same pole of the mating plug when inserted into the socket.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33333
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14963891', '15108442', '15459022', '15918829', '15591808']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6789972794836353
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4741621788487895
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6585137694201507
- Mean Citation Score: 178.464472
- Max Citation Score: 189.29593
- Similarity Product: 149.14473456523956

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

Dataset: test