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 1):
An apparatus of performing a clock skew adjustment between at least first and second clock signals, comprising:\n a first skew sensor configured to receive 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 to generate first information based on the third and fourth clock signals, the first information varying depending on a clock skew between the first and second clock signals; a second skew sensor configured to receive 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 to generate second information based on the fifth and sixth clock signals, the second information varying depending on the clock skew between the first and second clock signals; and a clock skew controller configured to perform the clock skew adjustment based on the first and second information, wherein when the clock skew is within a first window ranging from (\u2212\u0394tA\u2212S) and (\u0394tB+S), the clock skew controller is configured to stop the skew adjustment, 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): 0.7451776593569981
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6337726033303963
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7340371537543379
- Mean Citation Score: 281.44397000000004
- Max Citation Score: 588.11694
- Similarity Product: 576.5679891668235

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