PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16290346
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["710", "310000"]

Abstract:
A memory controller and buffers on memory modules each operate in two modes, depending on the type of motherboard through which the controller and modules are connected. In a first mode, the controller transmits decoded chip-select signals independently to each module, and the motherboard data channel uses multi-drop connections to each module. In a second mode, the motherboard has point-to-point data channel and command address connections to each of the memory modules, and the controller transmits a fully encoded chip-select signal group to each module. The buffers operate modally to correctly select ranks or partial ranks of memory devices on one or more modules for each transaction, depending on the mode.

Claim (Index 18):
A memory module comprising:\n a plurality of memory device sites; a plurality of primary chip select (CS) lines; a plurality of secondary CS lines, wherein each secondary CS line of the plurality of secondary CS lines coupled to a memory device site of the plurality of memory device sites; an on-die termination (ODT) line; and a buffer component coupled to the plurality of primary CS lines, the plurality of secondary CS lines, and the ODT line, wherein the buffer component comprises a CS decoder, wherein the CS decoder is to:\n receive a first command, the first command comprising a primary CS signal received as a first CS signal group in a first clock cycle and a second CS signal group in a second clock cycle that is subsequent to the first clock cycle; \n determine whether the first command is a write access; and \n determine a subset of the plurality of secondary CS lines on which to assert a secondary CS signal based on the primary CS signal, wherein the buffer component is to:\n assert the secondary CS signal on the subset of the plurality of secondary CS lines; and \n generate an ODT signal on the ODT line responsive to the CS decoder determining that the first command is a write access.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 51.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01667
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15101870', '14538524', '15024454', '14578078', '14869294']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6968392394360137
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5661796538279324
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6837732808752056
- Mean Citation Score: 377.5441
- Max Citation Score: 485.71692
- Similarity Product: 384.8462762445617

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

Dataset: test