PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16180181
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["712", "223000"]

Abstract:
Hardware units and methods for performing matrix multiplication via a multi-stage pipeline wherein the storage elements associated with one or more stages of the pipeline are clock gated based on the data elements and/or portions thereof that known to have a zero value (or can be treated as having a zero value). In some cases, the storage elements may be clock gated on a per data element basis based on whether the data element has a zero value (or can be treated as having a zero value). In other cases, the storage elements may be clock gated on a partial element basis based on the bit width of the data elements. For example, if bit width of the data elements is less than a maximum bit width for the data elements then a portion of the bits related to that data element can be treated as having a zero value and a portion of the storage elements associated with that data element may not be clocked. In yet other cases the storage elements may be clock gated on both a per element and a partial element basis.

Claim (Index 20):
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer readable description of the hardware unit as set forth in  claim 1  that, when processed in an integrated circuit manufacturing system, causes the integrated circuit manufacturing system to manufacture an integrated circuit embodying the hardware unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.65333
- Patent Class: 712.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13664689', '11749224', '13785528', '10435976', '12417013']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6235956893288254
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4933151578616367
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6105676361821065
- Mean Citation Score: 210.794676
- Max Citation Score: 213.49867000000003
- Similarity Product: 141.2577432110226

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test