PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15874724
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["712", "208000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus are provided for decoding instructions in a computer program wherein the instructions include one or more base instructions that are subject to modification by one or more other instructions. A decoder determines whether a first received instruction was arrived at by a non-incremental change to a program counter (i.e. a jump in the program). If the first instruction was arrived at by a non-incremental change to the program counter the decoder decodes the immediately preceding instruction to determine if the original instruction is a base instruction subject to modification by one or more other instructions. If the preceding instruction indicates that the original instruction is a base instruction an error has occurred and exception handling code is invoked.

Claim (Index 15):
A data processing apparatus arranged to execute a computer program, the data processing apparatus comprising:\n a program memory configured to store the computer program, the computer program comprising a plurality of instructions, the plurality of instructions comprising one or more base instructions and at least one modifier instruction for each base instruction, the plurality of instructions stored in the program memory so that each base instruction is stored on a same side of a boundary within the program memory as the at least one modifier instruction for that base instruction; a program counter configured to identify a first instruction in the program memory; a fetch unit configured to retrieve the first instruction in the program memory identified by the program counter; and a decode unit configured to:\n receive the first instruction from the fetch unit, and \n request an additional instruction from the fetch unit to look for a modifier instruction for the first instruction, the additional instruction being an instruction immediately preceding the first instruction in the program memory or an instruction immediately following the first instruction in the program memory; \n wherein the fetch unit is further configured to determine whether the additional instruction is on the same side of a boundary of the program memory as the first instruction, and in response to determining that the additional instruction is not on the same side of the boundary of the program memory, avoid fetching the additional instruction from the program memory.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13333
- Patent Class: 712.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14722292', '12572058', '15403283', '12031756', '14318752']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5514029617051832
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5140693769642959
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5476696032310945
- Mean Citation Score: 197.596816
- Max Citation Score: 328.53644
- Similarity Product: 276.961837316227

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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