PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16037697
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["327", "270000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus of performing a clock skew adjustment between at least first and second clock signals includes first and second skew sensors and a skew controller. The first skew sensor receives a third clock signal obtained by delaying the first clock signal by a first delay and a fourth clock signal obtained by delaying the second clock signal by a second delay, and generates first information based on the third and fourth clock signals. The second skew sensor receives a fifth clock signal obtained by delaying the first clock signal by a third delay and a sixth clock signal obtained by delaying the second clock signal by a fourth delay, and generates second information based on the fifth and sixth clock signals. Each of the first and second information varies depending on the clock skew. The skew controller performs the clock skew adjustment based on the first and second information.

Claim (Index 8):
A method for adjusting a clock skew between at least first and second clock signals, comprising:\n receiving, by a first skew sensor, third and fourth clock signals, wherein the third clock signal is obtained by delaying the first clock signal by a first delay and the fourth clock signal is obtained by delaying the second clock signal by a second delay; receiving, by a second skew sensor, fifth and sixth clock signals, wherein the fifth clock signal is obtained by delaying the first clock signal by a third delay and the sixth clock signal is obtained by delaying the second clock signal by a fourth delay; generating, by the first skew sensor, first information based on the third and fourth clock signals, wherein the second information varies depending on a clock skew between the first and second clock signals; generating, by the second skew sensor, second information based on the fifth and sixth clock signals, wherein the second information varies depending on the clock skew between the first and second clock signals; and performing the clock skew adjustment based on the first and second information, and stopping, by a clock skew controller, the clock skew adjustment when the clock skew is within a first window ranging from (\u2212\u0394tA\u2212S) and (\u0394tB+S), where \u0394tA corresponds to a difference between the first and second delays, \u0394tB corresponds to a difference between the third and fourth delays, and S is a sensing resolution of each of the first and second skew sensors.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 36.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.82927
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15257963', '10682351', '12071635', '15593079', '15278409']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7452074409134136
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.633677528796678
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.73405444970174
- Mean Citation Score: 281.44397000000004
- Max Citation Score: 588.11694
- Similarity Product: 576.2096620545851

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