PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15761212
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["375", "343000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and method are provided for processing a received input signal comprising a sequence of data blocks. Counter circuitry within the apparatus is arranged to receive a digital representation of the input signal, and for each data block generates a count value indicative of occurrences of a property of the digital representation (for example a rising edge or a falling edge) during an associated data block transmission period. Quantization circuitry then maps each count value to a soft decision value from amongst a predetermined set of soft decision values, where the number of soft decision values in the predetermined set exceeds a number of possible data values of the data block. The output circuitry then generates a digital output signal in dependence on the soft decision values. Such an apparatus has been found to provide a low power technique for a receiver, whilst still enabling the improved sensitivity benefits of using soft decisions to be achieved, and allows the apparatus to be constructed using all digital components.

Claim (Index 5):
An apparatus as claimed in  claim 4 , wherein said reconfiguration circuitry is arranged to operate in one or more of:\n an initialisation mode where the updating of the mapping occurs on initialisation of the apparatus using at least one predetermined transmitted signal to form the input signal; a periodic testing mode where a periodic testing process is performed using at least one predetermined transmitted signal to form the input signal; and a continuous monitoring mode where the updating of the mapping occurs based on the count values obtained from the digital representation of the input signal provided during active operation of the apparatus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.96703
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13357907', '13789903', '14861458', '10511648', '14220037']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.486025755609938
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4769832837415552
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4851215084230997
- Mean Citation Score: 157.537018
- Max Citation Score: 165.17828
- Similarity Product: 119.16593565173626

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

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