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 11):
A socket monitoring circuit as claimed in  claim 1  wherein a parameter of said pull-up element is variable so as to vary a magnitude of expected current flow between the pull up-element and the jack detect contact of the socket in the event that the jack detect contact is electrically connected to the first socket contact, and wherein the monitoring circuit is configured to vary said parameter of the pull-up element based on said indication of signal activity.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33333
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14963891', '15108442', '15459022', '15918829', '15591808']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7041691529232037
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.477255326680622
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6814777702989456
- Mean Citation Score: 178.464472
- Max Citation Score: 189.29593
- Similarity Product: 148.07387294455708

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